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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

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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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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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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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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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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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