A couple of interesting notes:

Bush talking about the WTC terrorists, They didn't think we were a nation that could conceivably sacrifice for something greater than our self, that we were soft, that we were so self-absorbed and so materialistic that we wouldn't defend anything we believed in. My, were they wrong. They just were reading the wrong magazine, or watching the wrong Springer show," said Bush.
Bush was speaking at a White House East Room event celebrating national championships won by seven National Collegiate Athletic Association teams.


From the Mirror-UK

DEFIANT SADDAM TAUNTS BUSH AND BLAIR

By James Hardy And Mark Dowdney        

                
SADDAM Hussein yesterday defied US threats to strike at Iraq, declaring: "They don't scare us."
The tyrant spoke out as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told MPs that Iraq posed a "severe" threat to security - but military action was a "last resort".

Mocking war plans by President Bush and Tony Blair, Saddam told supporters in Baghdad: "Recent futile threats will not scare your country. It has reached such a level that threats will not intimidate it."

He denounced US Vice President Dick Cheney's 11-nation Middle East tour to win support for military action against Iraq as "wicked".
And on a bloody day in which 38 died in the West Bank and Gaza, he showed his contempt for the West by doubling to £15,000 the cash he gives the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
President Bush has repeatedly warned Saddam that Iraq faces "consequences" if it continues to ban UN weapons inspectors.

In Britain, Mr Straw told the Commons that Iraq represented a "severe threat to international and regional security as a result of its continuing development of weapons of mass destruction".
There was "overwhelming and compelling evidence" of such weapons.
Before UN inspectors were thrown out of the country in 1998, he said, they found 4,000 tonnes of chemicals used in weapons production, 610 tonnes used in nerve gas, and 31 chemical weapons munitions.
The inspectors must now be allowed to return to do their job "without obstruction".

As MPs of all parties warned against a rush to extend the war on terror, Mr Straw said military action against Iraq could not be ruled out.

But, faced with a growing Labour rebellion, he added: "I strongly accept you don't take military action without clear evidence - and, where it is clear, this is a last resort.

"We have to be cautious and ensure the decisions we make have the support of the international community."
Later, he told a meeting of Labour MPs the threat of attack was being used to force Saddam to allow inspectors back. Aides said Mr Straw was trying to "reassure" backbenchers that the Government would not rush in.

Mr Cheney arrived in Jordan yesterday where King Abdullah said a strike on Iraq would have "dangerous repercussions" on stability and the war on terrorism.

Retired US General Wesley Clark, who oversaw Nato's Kosovo campaign, told Radio Four yesterday overthrowing Saddam would need "several hundred thousand" troops.