Though most Americans don't believe their country is winning the war, they don't think sending more troops is the answer, as only 9 percent of those polled said the country should dispatch more forces to Iraq.
"We don't need any terminology to describe the war, because we don't take a specific political position, " he said.
"When they look at the war, they don't consider it a crusade for democracy, " he said.
Diplomats believe both sides still think they can win the war, and don't really want to talk to one another about a compromise solution, he adds.
So far, the GOP leadership has been successful at blocking anti-war legislation because Democrats don't have the 60 votes to cut off what would become an endless debate on the war.
"Make no mistake about it: We're at war, and we don't have time to dawdle, " DeLay said.
They're from the generation after World War II and they don't understand why more people didn't defy the Nazis.
Unocal studied the problem extensively and concluded that, with the exception of Colombia, rebels in war-torn countries don't destroy key elements of the economic infrastructure.
There is extreme security, and although the officials here estimate that they're going to follow the Geneva Conventions governing prisoners of war, even though they don't consider these POWs, that they're going to be treated humanely.
Representative PETER HOEKSTRA (Republican, Michigan): That they will better be able to understand the reasons why we are involved in this global war on terror, and the threats and the risks that we face if we don't fight and win this war.
We don't want war, poverty, fundamentalism, whether in an Islamic country or non-Islamic country.
There are some things that need to be fixed, but we don't need a war.
It was a curious observation, as many countries without their own currency don't go to war either.
"Red lines don't lead to war, red lines prevent war, " he said.
You don't take America to war unless you have a plan to win the peace.
You don't send troops to war without the body armor that they need.
"Don't call it a war game", Pentagon officials were saying - a reflection perhaps of the sensitivities surrounding Nato at the moment.
"I don't think the price war is going to abate anytime soon, " says Bruce Stephen, vice-president for worldwide PC research at International Data Corp. (IDC).
General VOLNEY WARNER (U.S. Army, Retired): Stick to the facts, don't embellish, don't get yourself in a position where you're selling the war - I think that would be a mistake.
Events in Lebanon could spin out of control, even if rival Lebanese groups don't want Syria's war to be exported to Lebanon, said Hilal Khashan, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut.
It could also spark a browser war, however, irritating corporate information-technology administrators who don't like the prospect of having to test and maintain competing browsers, says Tim Hickernell, associate lead research analyst with Info-Tech Research Group.
Representative TIM WALZ (Democrat, Minnesota): They don't want unaccounted money going to this war.
"I don't think that one person makes the war on terror here, " Campbell said.
While risks do exist, they say, most of them don't truly rise to the level of war.
But one of the things that I think is comparable is that they don't really make any commentary on the war itself.
Rollins also said that despite McCain's war hero status, history has shown veterans who run for president don't always capture the veteran vote.
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