"Increasingly, it seems that those fighting the United States and the coalition are acting that way."

And in the absence of an immediate end to the violence against civilians, our coalition is prepared to act, and act with urgency.

The president added that "our coalition must act deliberately, but inaction is not an option."

The coalition acts as a pressure group, to encourage politicians to act on the issue of climate change.

"Because our coalition acted," he said, "Saddam's torture chambers are closed."

One reason the coalition did not act improperly, the judge said, was that the Bush campaign refused its entreaties during the 1992 campaign.

Ms. Marsh denied the Attorney General's allegation that the coalition acts simply as a trade group for the commercial owners of Seabrook.

America and a broad coalition acted first in Afghanistan, by destroying the training camps of terror and removing the regime that harbored Al Qaeda.

"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass murder," he said.

The coalition acted as an advocate against proposed legislation, national or local, that would restrict free speech.