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If We're Successful In Iraq ... We Will Have Struck A Major Blow Right At The Heart Of The Base, If You Will, The Geographic Base Of The Terrorists Who Have Had Us Under Assault Now For Many Years, But Most Especially On 9/11.

Oil Remains Fundamentally A Government Business. While Many Regions Of The World Offer Great Oil Opportunities, The Middle East With Two-thirds Of The World's Oil And The Lowest Cost, Is Still Where The Prize Ultimately Lies, Even Though Companies Are Anxious For Greater Access There, Progress Continues To Be Slow.

...and While Everybody Was Tremendously Impressed With The Low Cost Of The Conflict, For The 146 Americans Who Were Killed In Action And For Their Families, It Wasn't A Cheap War. And The Question In My Mind Is How Many Additional American Casualties Is Saddam Worth? And The Answer Is Not Very Damned Many.

We Now Have Irrefutable Evidence That [saddam] Has Once Again Set Up And Reconstituted His Program To Take Uranium, To Enrich It To Sufficiently High Grade, So That It Will Function As The Base Material As A Nuclear Weapon. And There's No Doubt About The Fact That The Level Of Effort Has Escalated In Recent Months.

We Need To Have A Pro-growth Policy Put In Place That Offers People Hope And Offers The Opportunity For Businesses To Expand And For Them To Have Confidence In What The World Is Going To Look Like For The Next Two Or Three Or Four Years With Respect To Economic Policy.