The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.