For the Record.(President Bush, and others, comment on the War on Terrorism)(Brief Article)

-- 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."

-- At Dulles International Airport in Virginia, 87 percent of baggage screeners are non-U.S. citizens, reports NPR. In CNN/USA Today poll, 58 percent say immigration levels should be reduced and 30 percent say keep them at present levels; in June, respective numbers were 41 percent and 42 percent. In Council on American- Islamic Relations poll, 67 percent of U.S. mosque leaders say "America is an immoral, corrupt society." University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center says there are no more than 2.8 million Muslims in U.S., despite advocacy-group claims of 7 million. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.) writes to Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal expressing disappointment that New York mayor Rudy Giuliani returned his $10 million check because of objections to political statements, asks prince to donate money to black Americans. Rep. Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) on McKinney's letter, in New York Daily News: "It ...