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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they’re the West’s whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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After the ’30s, we said, “no more Munichs.” And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, “No more Vietnams.” Now if we say, “No more Iraqs,” the next one won’t be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can’t learn lessons.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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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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