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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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don’t agree with that, because I don’t think we’re capable of doing that.
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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.
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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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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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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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