From The White House

Pete Wehner, formally of "Empower America" tries to put out pro-Bush material within a given news cycle. This one is particularly instructive.
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John Kerry

“Iraq is not the center of the war on terror. The President keeps saying it is. The President keeps trying to push that down America's throat. It's wrong, it's a mistake” -- ABC's This Week, August 20, 2006

Osama bin Laden

"This Third World War is raging" in Iraq. "The whole world is watching this war" -- and it will end in "victory and glory, or misery and humiliation."

Ayman al-Zawahiri

“[Iraq] is now the place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era… The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority or amirate, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of a caliphate… The third stage: Extend the jihad wave to the secular countries neighboring Iraq.” -- letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, July 2005

Tony Blair

“So these people who are fighting us [in Iraq] know what is at stake. The question is: do we?” -- May 25, 2006