■ Bush at Travis Air Force Base in California: “You mark my words: People are going to get tired of the war on terrorism. And by the way, it may take more than two years. There’s a variety of theaters. So long as anybody’s terrorizing established governments, there needs to be a war.” . . . Vice President Cheney, in Washington Post: “It is different than the Gulf War was, in the sense that it may never end. At least, not in our lifetime.” . . . Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers: “This is a different kind of conflict. The closest analogy would be the drug war.” . . . Bush on the World Series, according to New York Post: “I’m for anyone but the Yankees.”
■ Former CIA chief James Woolsey: “There are too many things, too many examples of stolen identities, of cleverly crafted documentation, of coordination across continents and between states . . . to stray very far from the conclusion that a state, and a very well- run intelligence service, is involved here.” . . . In Reuters/Zogby poll, 74 percent support expanding war on terrorism to “go after Saddam Hussein.” . . . National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, in New York Times: “I think that the Russians are beginning to see that what we’ve said all along is true: that the near-term program for missile defense, which is really a testing and evaluation program, is not actually a threat to them.” . . . In New Atlantic Initiative/Chicago Sun-Times poll, 77 percent say they support building missile-defense system. . . . Rep. Steve Buyer (R., Ind.) proposes using tactical nuclear weapons on parts of Afghanistan where bin Laden may be hiding: “Close these caves for a thousand years.” . . . Adds Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.): “I would never rule out tactical weapons if I thought they could do the job and if they were needed.”
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