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The transcript is here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030129-4.html

The best part:

So I call upon the world to come together and insist that this dangerous man disarm. But should they choose not to continue to pressure Saddam, and should he continue to defy the world, for the sake of our peace, for the sake of the security, this country will lead a coalition of other willing nations and we will disarm Saddam Hussein. If need be, if war is brought upon us like I said last night, I want to assure you, particularly those who wear the uniform and those who have a loved one in the military, we will commit the full force and might of the United States military. And for the name of peace, we will prevail. (Applause.)

We will free people. This great, powerful nation is motivated not by power for power's sake, but because of our values. If everybody matters, if every life counts, then we should hope everybody has the great God's gift of freedom. We go into Iraq to disarm the country. We will also go in to make sure that those who are hungry are fed, those who need health care will have health care, those youngsters who need education will get education. But most of all, we will uphold our values. And the biggest value we hold dear is the value of freedom. (Applause.) As I said last night, freedom and liberty, they are not America's gifts to the world. They are God's gift to humanity. We hold that thought dear to our hearts.

This is a great nation. America is a strong nation. America is a nation full of people who are compassionate. America is a nation that is willing to serve causes greater than ourselves. There's no question we face challenges ahead of us -- challenges at home, challenges abroad. But as I said last night, history has called the right nation into action. History has called the United States into action, and we will not let history down.

thanks for the link knighthawk

The phrase I posted came from the following: "We're having an honest debate in this country, and we should, about peace and how to achieve the peace. It should be clear to you now, though, that in my judgment you don't contain Saddam Hussein. You don't hope that therapy will somehow change his evil mind -- (laughter) -- that you deal with Saddam Hussein. I hope we can do this peacefully.

I went to the United Nations for a reason. One, I wanted the United Nations to be something other than an empty debating society. (Applause.) I wanted it to address this threat. By a 15-0 vote in the Security Council, they said, yes, it's a problem and he must disarm. But the fundamental question is, when. There's a lot of focus on the inspectors, and we wish them well. But the role of the inspectors is not to play hide-and-seek with Saddam Hussein in a country the size of California.

Between GW calling the UN what it actually is and Tony Blair telling his Parliament that the NK's nukes will have to be addressed after Iraq----whew, what a week!

Thanks for the ping. I think.

I purposely didn't listen to the speech last night. Dubya, IMHO, can't dupe Saddam this time the way George Herbert Walker did with former Iraqi Ambassador April Glaspie.

True, we need the oil. But there are things that rub me the wrong way - media silence re: the recent signing of a Unocal contract to build a pipeline across Afhganistan. The Taliban were in Sugar Land, TX, only a couple of months before 9/11.

It galls me that our troops are in fact working for giant corporations!

And if nobody likes what I'm saying, I really have ceased to care.