In His Years In Washington, Senator Kerry

I Think The Key That Happened On 9/11 Is We Went From Considering Terrorist Attacks As A Law Enforcement Problem To Considering Terrorist Attacks, Especially On The Scale We Have On 9/11, As Being An Act Of War.

It's Very Important To Go Back And Keep In Mind The Distinction Between Handling These Events As Criminal Acts, Which Was The Way We Did Before 9/11, And Then Looking At 9/11 And Saying, 'this Is Not A Criminal Act,' Not When You Destroy 16 Acres Of Manhattan, Kill 3,000 Americans, Blow A Big Hole In The Pentagon. That's An Act Of War.

That's The Nature Of The Intelligence Business. You Have To Work With What You Can Get Your Hands On, But It Is.. And In Fact It's More An Art Form Than It Is A Science, And You Have To Continually Work The Problem, Continually Try.

I Have Not Suggested There's A Connection Between Iraq And 9/11.

I Think There's - The Assumption Seems To Predominate On The Other Side That The Reason There's Been Problems In The World Is Because Of U.s. Activity, U.s. Conduct. We're The Bad Guys.we're The Ones That Lead People To Become Terrorists. We're The Ones That Generate The Kind Of Criticism That Has Given Al Qaeda An Excuse To Come Attack The United States.