SCOTT McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Helen [Thomas].
Q. Diplomacy depends on policy. You can’t sell what is unsaleable. If the policy remains that we will engage further in preemptive war, you cannot sell it to the Middle East, I’m sure, or anywhere else. So are you going to change any policy?
MR. McCLELLAN: Our policy is to expand freedom and democracy and to support the aspirations of people –
Q. By gunpoint?
MR. McCLELLAN: — and support the aspirations of people in countries around the world that do not have the freedoms that we enjoy. And, no, Helen, the President made it very clear in his inaugural address that it is not primarily the use of arms. It is supporting the aspirations of the people in those countries and doing all we can to stand with those people as they seek greater freedoms. We are standing with the people of Lebanon. We are standing with the people of the Palestinian Territories. We are standing with –
Q. We also invaded Iraq.
MR. McCLELLAN: — we are standing with the people of Iraq, and the people of Iraq have shown that freedom is a universal value. They stood up and defied the terrorists and went to the polls.
Q. And we invaded the country.
MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead, Terry.
