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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

Brent Scowcroft

After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Country Memories People United States
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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Country Democracy Election People
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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Russia Soul Trying
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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Country People Period Strategy War
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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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Experience Soil Violence Years
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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Country Democracy People States
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn’t share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they’ve gone back and forth.
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Enlightenment Gone Share
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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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Better Country World People
If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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Country Money People United States War
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace

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