] Stop and think, if in 2001, or in 2000, or in 1999, we
] had gone to war in Afghanistan to deal with Osama bin
] Laden, and we had tried to say it's because he's planning
] to kill 3,000 people in New York, people would have said,
] you don't have any proof of that," he said.
]
] "I think the lesson of Sept. 11 is that you can't wait
] until prrof after the fact.