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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
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
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
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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Country People Strength Stronger
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
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Chaos Country Feels People
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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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Country Different People Vietnam
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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Country Hussein Internal People Situation
I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Country Looks People System Thinking
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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Community Elements Radical Religion
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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