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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

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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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Community Elements Radical Religion
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 Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they’re the West’s whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
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Boys Problem West
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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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 don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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