you and president bush refer to assassinations plural. can you give us another example of another assassination attempt, as well? i don t have anything that i can share with you specifically. sir, the unilateral u.s. sanctions on the way, the treasury have you given up on china? we ve not given up, and let me say this with china. we continue to talk with them, first to ensure that they are fully committed to implementing the u.n. sanks and they have assured us they are. if you ll recall the last round of sanctions imposed a pretty severe restriction on the product so fuels and petroleum dyessel a diesel and what not. you control the pipeline that feeds their refinery. you know, you can do that unilaterally if you want to
united states. october 7th, the military launched operation enduring freedom. attacking al qaeda and the taliban regime in afghanistan. before the year was out, the taliban lost control of the country but the low-grade war would continue almost a decade, posing a serious challenge to american will, next, administration set its sights on iraq. a dangerous foe was believed to be building wupgs, and violating un sanks and dick cheney became a strong advocate for the war. there is no doubt that saddam hussien now has weapons of mass destruction. there is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends and against our allies and against us. it was a radical turn from the first gulf war, when he said we should not spill american blood to force saddam from power. what changed?