George W. Bush: “It can be tempting to look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude our best option is to pack up and go home.”

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

Today, we remember your loss, we share your sorrow and we honor the men and women that you have loved so long and so well.

Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square. Members of other political parties are not our enemies; they are our fellow citizens.

I applaud your Governor's response to that tragedy.