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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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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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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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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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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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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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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