George W. Bush: “We expect there to be no strings on our commanders.”

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.

For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence—a time set apart.

The battles waged by our troops are part of a broader struggle between two dramatically different systems.