There is nothing to debate. If Iran were pursuing peaceful nuclear ambitions, there are plenty of countries that would step in to help them. No, Iran is clearly pursuing nuclear military ambitions, as evidenced by the North Korean-like delays and diplomacy. I guess it's just been too long since we had real good world war. People are bored.

I am extremely grateful for the freedoms that our great country has afforded you and the rest of the great citizens of our country. I am proud to be able to express my opinions in the forums of my choice without concern of being jailed or punished for my beliefs. The liberties that you have taken as a journalist to communicate your message is becoming increasingly troublesome. NBC Nightly News and your personal views are not news. In my opinion, you are beginning to do our country, the reputation of your network, and the American people a disservice. Your political biases have become so deeply engrained in your message that the message itself is beginning to become clouded. With all due respect, please step back and reasses what you feel your role to the American people is, and if you find that delivering the news of the day in an unbiased manner is part of your role, please assert yourself to do just that.

Please keep the checks and balances going in the White House. A Free Press is our only hope for Democracy to survive! Keep up the good work!

It's fascinating to watch Bush claim to be all for peace in his speech to the UN, when in fact he avoided peace when he started one needless war in Iraq and is now clamouring with all his might for another war with Iran.

It would have been a lot cheaper and cost far fewer lives to keep hunting bin Laden and al Qaeda, instead of conquering Iraq and attempting to install "democracy" at gunpoint. Not to mention Saddam provided a useful check on Iranian ambitions in the region.

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Ahmed Chalabi and his Iranian friends manipulated the Bush administration to take out Saddam for their benefit? If so, I doubt the US has ever been taken advantage of so badly.

I agree with the lady from Naperville,IL. Your work, David, is so appreciated, and I, as were many others I talked to, was sorely distressed to see how you were met with such disrespect at the president's press conference last Friday, September 15. You do ask the tough questions, but you should be answered with respect no matter how tough the question is. Keep up your diligence and perseverance in asking those hard questions for those of us who cannot be there in person.

I just hope that the American people don't fall for the rhetoric this November. The fear should be the President of the United States, he and his administration is causing all the problems around the world, and the American people need to wake up. These people have never served in the military and they are putting your son , daughter, hushand, and wives that you love on the front line to protect there family life style, why they live it up now and in the future. Why doesn't President Bush daughters or VP Cheney daughters go fight for there country because they have the lower class American fighting the war that they will not fight. Basically ask VP Cheney about his military career, or Bush and Karl Rowe about there military service.
But we have American society believing the people that started a war for no reason.
It is like the American people are under a monarch ruler.
You can protect yourself by the Second Amendment, "under the right to bear arms".
WAKE UP AMERICAN PEOPLE AFTER THE ELECTION YOU WILL SEE ANOTHER WAR, WITH IRAN.
They will be laughing at us , and saying we tricked them stupid people again.

I think Bush has become addicted to the applause. He started out by keeping a very low profile. There were very few and far between speeches and him looking like a deer caught in the headlights. Then 9/11 happened and he started getting his confidence. There was a period of resting his left elbow on the podium as he slumped down behind it. I think Laura must have nagged about that one for a while, and then sewed buttons inside the left elbow of his suits. Now he stands a little straighter. He never was much of a public speaker until the last year or so. His dyslexia and lisp have been an ongoing problem. He seems to have the style down, but the content of his speaches could use MUCH work. Personally, I think they have him wired and he is channeling Rove & Cheney.

Bottom line: he is enjoying this rehearsal for after-office speaking opportunities, and he is alienating the global community as he does it.

thank you david gregory for asking the questions all journalists should be asking. bush is an embarrassment to our great country. please keep asking and pressing for the answers. bush thinks he is so funny but his policies are not funny they are disastrous.

I too want to thank you, David, for keeping the pressure on this president. He needs to be held accountable to the American people for his actions. We have for far too long given Bush a pass and our country is paying a heavy price for that now.

The problem with today's speech is that we have learned so much of what the President has offered as truth has in fact been anything but truth. How can we trust him anymore. He is determined to insist that Iran is out for nuclear weapons, but he was also equally determined to insist that Iraq had them as well. We have a perpetual stream of misreprentations to consider as we ponder the commentary of President Bush. What makes anyone think we can trust this administration to steer this country or the world in the right direction when we can no longer trust them to provide us with accurate information. Powell was right, our moral standing in the world is horribly tarnished.

President Bush is so constrained by his own making that the US is becoming somewhat irrelavent. Iran has been negotiating with Europe, isolating the US, which is a good tactic. Now, Bush needs the UN in order to attempt to confront the Iranian president over the issue of nuclear proliferation. It almost seems that Bush is on his own soapbox, bantering away on things the international assembly is nearly oblivious of. So how does this president gain international attention when he is being ignored for the most part. If W. thinks that he can gain the attention of the UN by the similar means he did so during the run up to Iraq, I think he has another thing coming. It is as if he is using wrestling tactics used by the WWF to garner any means suitable for himself and his intentions. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he employs the old shoe pounding of Khruschev to do his bidding. And it is coming to those in the know that his recent UN aplomb raises his diplomatic skillls to the level of Ambassador Zorin, during the Cuba missile crisis of '62. This isn't pretty for an American president to appear so diplomatically against the ropes of world criticism, and Bush has placed himself in this limelight of near diplomatic uselessness!

Just a note to say how much David Gregory's work is appreciated. He is a voice that asks the tough questions and represents the best of what journalists should be doing. Thanks and keep up the great work.