In an address to the nation on September 11, 2006, President Bush said: ” ‘Our nation is being tested in a way that we have not been since the start of the Cold War. We saw what a handful of our enemies can do with box cutters and plane tickets,’ Bush said. ‘Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, The War Within, Page 124