Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

posed, oposed, 0posed, lposed, oosed, 0osed, losed, poosed, p0osed, plosed, piosed, p9osed, p0osed, pposed, plosed, pised, p9sed, p0sed, ppsed, plsed, poised, po9sed, po0sed, popsed, polsed, poased, powsed, poesed, podsed, poxsed, pozsed, poaed, powed, poeed, poded, poxed, pozed, posaed, poswed, poseed, posded, posxed, poszed, poswed, pos3ed, pos4ed, posred, possed, posded, poswd, pos3d, pos4d, posrd, possd, posdd, posewd, pose3d, pose4d, poserd, posesd, posedd, posesd, poseed, posefd, posexd, posecd, poses, posee, posef, posex, posec, poseds, posede, posedf, posedx, posedc.

The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.