10/14/2001
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"To protect the American people, we have got to make sure this is a different kind of war."
"If we leave before the job is done, we will have let down a generation of Americans."
"This bill will help protect the American people."
"And if [Maliki's] point is, is that those benchmarks, or the way forward can't be imposed upon Iraq by an outside force, he's right."