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If Our Commanders On The Ground Say We Need More Troops, I Will Send Them. But Our Commanders Tell Me They Have The Number Of Troops They Need To Do Their Job. Sending More Americans Would Undermine Our Strategy Of Encouraging Iraqis To Take The Lead In This Fight. And Sending More Americans Would Suggest That We Intend To Stay Forever, When We Are, In Fact, Working For The Day When Iraq Can Defend Itself And We Can Leave.

-George W. Bush

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If Our Commanders On The Ground Say We Need More Troops, I Will Send Them. But Our Commanders Tell Me They Have The Number Of Troops They Need To Do Their Job. Sending More Americans Would Undermine Our Strategy Of Encouraging Iraqis To Take The Lead In This Fight. And Sending More Americans Would Suggest That We Intend To Stay Forever, When We Are, In Fact, Working For The Day When Iraq Can Defend Itself And We Can Leave.

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You Cannot Lead An Alliance If You Say You're Going Alone.

First Of All, I Don't See America Having Problems.

I'd Like To See Stability And A Unified Iraq. A Young Democracy Will Provide The Stability We Look For. I Will Tell You That If We Just Isolate Ourselves From The Middle East And Hope For The Best, We Will Not Address The Conditions That Had Led Young Suiciders To Get On Airplanes To Come And Attack Amerika In The First Place.

It's Important That The United States Not Forget The Lessons Of September The 11th, 2001. I Assure You, I'm Not Going To Forget Them.

We Have A Duty To Our Country To Participate In The Political Process. See, If You Believe In Freedom, You Have A Duty To Exercise Your Right To Vote To Begin With. I'm [here] To Encourage People To Do Their Duty, To Go To The Polls. I Want All People, No Matter What Their Political Party Is Or Whether They Even Like A Political Party, To Exercise Their Obligation To Vote.

The Senate Needs To Leave Enough Money In The Proposed Budget To Not Only Reduce All Marginal Rates, But To Eliminate The Death Tax, So That People Who Build Up Assets Are Able To Transfer Them From One Generation To The Next, Regardless Of A Person's Race.

Don't Misunderestimate Me. . . .

If Affirmative Action Means What I Just Described, What I'm For, Then I'm For It.

There's Just Something About This Job As President Every President Faces, You Know, That You Think One Thing Going In And Then The Pressures Of The Job Or The Realities Of The World, You Know, Are Different Than You Thought.

America Is The Land Of The Second Chance - And When The Gates Of The Prison Open, The Path Ahead Should Lead To A Better Life.

You Subscribe Politics To It. I Subscribe Freedom To It.

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Here In Usa We Respect Someone's Rights, And As We Profess Tolerance, We Shouldn't Change - Or Have To Change - Our Basic Views On The Sanctity Of Marriage. I Believe In The Sanctity Of Marriage. I Think It's Very Important That We Protect Marriage As An Institution, Between A Man And A Woman.

All Who Live In Tyranny And Hopelessness Can Know: The United States Will Not Ignore Your Oppression, Or Excuse Your Oppressors. When You Stand For Your Liberty, We Will Stand With You.

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