"The violence we have seen is a power grab by these extreme and ruthless elements. It's not a civil

"The violence we have seen is a power grab by these extreme and ruthless elements. It's not a civil war. It's not a popular uprising. Most of Iraq is relatively stable. Most Iraqis by far reject violence and oppose dictatorship."
President Bush
On the Iraq situation
"Our agents were isolated by government-imposed walls, handcuffed by government-imposed restrictions and starved for basic information technology. The old national intelligence system in place on Sept. 11 was destined to fail."
Attorney General John Ashcroft
Testifying before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks