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Imagine A World In Which You Had Saddam Hussein, Who Had The Capacity To Make A Weapon Of Mass Destruction, Who Was Paying Suiciders To Kill Innocent Life. Imagine What The World Would Be Like With Him In Power. The Idea Is To Try To Help Change The Middle East. Part Of The Reason We Went Into Iraq Was We Thought He Had Weapons Of Mass Destruction. It Turns Out He Didn't, But He Had The Capacity To Make Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

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Imagine A World In Which You Had Saddam Hussein, Who Had The Capacity To Make A Weapon Of Mass Destruction, Who Was Paying Suiciders To Kill Innocent Life. Imagine What The World Would Be Like With Him In Power. The Idea Is To Try To Help Change The Middle East. Part Of The Reason We Went Into Iraq Was We Thought He Had Weapons Of Mass Destruction. It Turns Out He Didn't, But He Had The Capacity To Make Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

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We'll Find Them. It'll Be A Matter Of Time To Do So.

Concentration Of Greenhouse Gases, Especially Co2, Have Increased Substantially Since The Beginning Of The Industrial Revolution. And The National Academy Of Sciences Indicates That The Increase Is Due In Large Part To Human Activity.

The Point Now Is How Do We Work Together To Achieve Important Goals. And One Such Goal Is A Democracy In Germany.

Working Together

Great Tragedy Has Come To Us, And We Are Meeting It With The Best That Is In Our Country, With Courage And Concern For Others Because This Is America. This Is Who We Are.

Concern For Others

Helping People Helps Defines A Strategy That Makes Public And Private Moneys More Effective When It Comes To Helping Save Lives.

I Think That If You Don't Think We're In A War That You Can't Win The War.

The Terrorists Do Not Understand America. The American People Do Not Falter Under Threat, And We Will Not Allow Our Future To Be Determined By Car Bombers And Assassins.

Wait A Minute. What Did You Just Say? You're Predicting $4-a-gallon Gas? ... That's Interesting. I Hadn't Heard That.

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.

I Said You Were A Man Of Peace. I Want You To Know I Took Immense Crap For That.

Everywhere That Freedom Stirs, Let Tyrants Fear.

I Was Taught That We Should Look After The Beam In Our Own Eye Before Searching For The Mote In Someone Else's.

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