http://www.abc.net.au/enoughrope/stories/s1120407.htm

We had been involved in different groups that were trying to buy the local baseball team. Sports franchises in the United States are different than here in Australia in that they are bought and sold like businesses. And we were in competing groups and his group got the letter of intent to buy the team, and he called me up after that and said would I be interested in still investing. I said, "Well, probably not." Because I thought they were going to try to mark it up to the next set of sellers. He said, "If you came in on the same basis that we did, would you be interested?" And I said "Yeah, I might be." I met him, and we set up an instant friendship.

TOM SCHIEFFER: And yet through all of that, no-one wants us to absent the field, no-one wants to say, "America, go home, don't be here any more." In the Middle East, perhaps the place where we run into the most criticism in the world, nobody wants us to go home.

TOM SCHIEFFER: What our critics have tried to say is al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were not in alliance. I don't think we really know how much contact there was between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
What bothers us and should bother us about the inability to find these weapons of mass destruction is not the effect they have on the political argument, it's what happened to them. The United Nations... We know through the United Nations inspection process that certain weapons were there, programs were there. What we have not been able to do is reconcile the weapons we knew were there with what we find now. Only three things could have happened to them. They were either destroyed, they were hidden or they were given to somebody else.

Because we can't reconcile that with what we find it ought to be very troubling to us because it can only be one of those three options. We don't know at this point in time whether one or all three of those options was exercised by Saddam Hussein. Until we find that out, the whole idea of weapons of mass destruction should be very troubling for us.

Well, that, to me, is the essence of the problem we fight - is we have to convince the world that this is not America that is under attack, it is civilisation that's under attack. And when we...and if we're able to do that, then I think we are able to better confront this as an international problem.

It's one of the most frustrating things for me to watch the public image of the President because it is not the George Bush that I know. The George Bush that I know is a very kind, very compassionate, uh, very thoughtful person. He reads all the time. Somehow...

TOM SCHIEFFER: He's married to a librarian. I mean, this is a woman...
TOM SCHIEFFER: This is a woman and this is a man who...they love books.