We can't get into a situation of bargaining with terrorists because this would put many more people's lives at risk, not only in Iraq but around the world,
The fact that terrorists have yet again targeted not U.S. or UK troops but an international organization... shows the depth of depravity to which they stoop.
These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
We cannot get into a situation, and I believe the family understand this, where we start bargaining with terrorists and kidnappers, because if we were to, we would not make Iraq or anywhere else safer,