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The Pentagon Is Constantly Adjusting Tactics Because They Have The Flexibility From The White House To Do So. The Strategy Is To Help The Iraqi People Achieve Their Objectives And Their Dreams, Which Is A Democratic Society. That's The Strategy. The Tactics It's Important That We Stay There And Get It Done; Or We Leave. We're Not Leaving So Long As I'm The President. That Would Be A Huge Mistake.

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George W. Bush

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The Pentagon Is Constantly Adjusting Tactics Because They Have The Flexibility From The White House To Do So. The Strategy Is To Help The Iraqi People Achieve Their Objectives And Their Dreams, Which Is A Democratic Society. That's The Strategy. The Tactics It's Important That We Stay There And Get It Done; Or We Leave. We're Not Leaving So Long As I'm The President. That Would Be A Huge Mistake.

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It's Kind Of The Washington, D.c., Chattering Class. They Kind Of Talk Amongst Themselves.

Any Government That Supports, Protects Or Harbours Terrorists Is Complicit In The Murder Of The Innocent And Equally Guilty Of Terrorist Crimes.

We Passed Law That Encouraged Consumption Through Different Purchasing Habits Like, You Know, Hybrid Vehicles. You Buy Hybrid, You Get A Tax Credit. We've Encouraged The Spread Of Ethanol As An Alternative To Crude Oil. We Have Asked For Congress To Pass Regulatory Relief So We Can Build More Refineries To Increase The Supply Of Gasoline, Hopefully Taking The Pressure Off Of Price. And So The Strategy Is To Recognize That Dependency Upon Crude Oil, In A Global Market, Affects Us Economically Here At Home. And, Therefore, We Need To Diversify Away As Quickly As Possible.

If You've Got Somebody In Harm's Way, You Want The President Being -- Making Advice, Not -- Be Given Advice By The Military, And Not Making Decisions Based Upon The Latest Gallup Poll Or Focus Group.

Russia's Most Precious Resource Is The Brain Power Of This Country. And You've Got A Lot Of It. It's Going To Take A Lot Of Brains In Russia To Create A Drain.

Freedom Is Not Our Gift To The World It Is God's Gift To Humanity.

American Mission In Iraq Is Clear: We're Hunting Down The Terrorists. We're Helping Iraqis Build A Free Nation That Is An Ally In The War On Terror. We're Advancing Freedom In The Broader Middle East. We Are Removing A Source Of Violence And Instability And Laying The Foundation Of Peace For Our Children And Our Grandchildren.

The Suicide Bombings Have Increased. There's Too Many Of Them.

But As Importantly, It Lies In The Fact That We've Got Citizens From All Walks Of Life, All Political Parties, That Are Willing To Say, I Want To Love My Neighbor. I Want To Make Somebody's Life Just A Little Bit Better.

I Believe That Democracy Will Prevail, So Long As The United States Stays With These Young Democracies To Help Them.

I Don't Understand How Poor People Think.

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