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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn’t know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

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