Well, that's not how I read the statement … After all, do Iraqis really want to — any Iraqi, sitting around that table, want to suggest that killing an innocent Iraqi child standing at a bus stop is legitimate? Or that killing Iraqi soldiers who are lining up at recruitment centers is legitimate? Or even that multinational forces — who by the way are there under a UN mandate — are somehow legitimate targets?

Interview on CNN with John King, November 22, 2005.