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18,316
That's what we have here.
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18,319
They've always had stakes in it.
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18,320
The Arab countries have a stake in not having a civil war.
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18,321
The European countries have a stake in not having total disorder on their doorstep.
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18,322
But this president hasn't even held the kind of statesman-like summits that pull people together and get them to invest in those states.
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18,325
When the Secretary General Kofi Annan offered the United Nations, he said, "No, no, we'll go do this alone."
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18,327
That's not a way to invite people.
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18,330
Of course, the U.N. was invited in.
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18,333
But they're now back in helping with elections.
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18,335
What's he say to Tony Blair?
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18,339
So what's the message going to be: "Please join us in Iraq.
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18,342
I know how these people think.
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18,343
I deal with them all the time.
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18,351
And Prime Minister Koizumi is going to call countries to account, to get them to contribute.
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18,352
And there's going to be an Arab summit, of the neighborhood countries.
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18,355
The United Nations, Kofi Annan offered help after Baghdad fell.
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18,363
And now there's 30 nations involved, standing side by side with our American troops.
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18,365
And I don't appreciate it when a candidate for president denigrates the contributions of these brave soldiers.
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18,368
That's not how you bring people together.
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18,374
No, what I said was that, because we achieved such a rapid victory, more of the Saddam loyalists were around.
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18,376
But because Tommy Franks did such a great job in planning the operations, we moved rapidly, and a lot of the Baathists and Saddam loyalists laid down their arms and disappeared.
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18,378
And now we're fighting them now.
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18,382
I see on the TV screens how hard it is.
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18,385
See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time.
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18,387
I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals to our troops, our friends, the Iraqi citizens.
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18,388
We've got a plan in place.
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18,389
The plan says there will be elections in January, and there will be.
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18,390
The plan says we'll train Iraqi soldiers so they can do the hard work, and we are.
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18,391
And it's not only just America, but NATO is now helping, Jordan's helping train police, UAE is helping train police.
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18,395
And as I just told you, there's going to be a summit of the Arab nations.
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18,396
Japan will be hosting a summit.
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18,399
It is hard work to go from a tyranny to a democracy.
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18,404
What I think troubles a lot of people in our country is that the president has just sort of described one kind of mistake.
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18,409
The truth is what good policy is based on.
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18,411
The president says that I'm denigrating these troops.
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18,413
But you can't tell me that when the most troops any other country has on the ground is Great Britain, with 8,300, and below that the four others are below 4,000, and below that, there isn't anybody out of the hundreds, that we have a genuine coalition to get this job done.
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18,414
You can't tell me that on the day that we went into that war and it started -- it was principally the United States, the America and Great Britain and one or two others.
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18,416
And today, we are 90 percent of the casualties and 90 percent of the costs.
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18,419
The president is the one that said, "We can't allow countries to get nuclear weapons."
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18,427
And I try not to.
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18,432
I just described the coalition.
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18,433
It is not the kind of coalition we were described when we were talking about voting for this.
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18,434
The president said he would exhaust the remedies of the United Nations and go through that full process.
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18,436
He cut if off, sort of arbitrarily.
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18,437
And we know that there were further diplomatic efforts under way.
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18,438
They just decided the time for diplomacy is over and rushed to war without planning for what happens afterwards.
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18,443
And most Americans know the difference.
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18,444
Now, this has cost us deeply in the world.
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18,449
We need to be smarter about now we wage a war on terror.
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18,451
We need to deny them the safe havens.
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18,452
We need to rebuild our alliances.
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18,453
I believe that Ronald Reagan, John Kennedy, and the others did that more effectively, and I'm going to try to follow in their footsteps.
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18,456
He said Osama bin Laden uses the invasion of Iraq as an excuse to spread hatred for America.
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18,457
Osama bin Laden isn't going to determine how we defend ourselves.
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18,458
Osama bin Laden doesn't get to decide.
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18,460
I decided the right action was in Iraq.
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18,461
My opponent calls it a mistake.
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18,465
I don't think he was misleading when he said that it was right to disarm Iraq in the spring of 2003.
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18,474
And when I stood up there and spoke to the Congress, I was speaking off the same intelligence he looked at to make his decisions to support the authorization of force.
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18,478
Nor was I misleading on the day that the president decided to go to war when I said that he had made a mistake in not building strong alliances and that I would have preferred that he did more diplomacy.
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18,479
I've had one position, one consistent position, that Saddam Hussein was a threat.
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18,483
The only thing consistent about my opponent's position is that he's been inconsistent.
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18,485
And you cannot change positions in this war on terror if you expect to win.
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18,489
And we have a duty to our country and to future generations of America to achieve a free Iraq, a free Afghanistan, and to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.
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18,493
You know, every life is precious.
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18,496
You know, I think about Missy Johnson.
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18,500
He'd been in Afghanistan, went to Iraq.
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18,501
You know, it's hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm's way.
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18,502
I told her after we prayed and teared up and laughed some that I thought her husband's sacrifice was noble and worthy.
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18,504
I understand that we must find Al Qaida wherever they hide.
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18,505
We must deal with threats before they fully materialize.
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18,508
That's what she told me her husband understood.
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18,515
It will help change the world; that we can look back and say we did our duty.
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18,521
And that's one of the reasons why I believe I can get this job done, because I am determined for those soldiers and for those families, for those kids who put their lives on the line.
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18,525
Now, we have a choice here.
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18,526
I've laid out a plan by which I think we can be successful in Iraq: with a summit, by doing better training, faster, by cutting -- by doing what we need to do with respect to the U.N. and the elections.
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18,527
There's only 25 percent of the people in there.
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18,528
They can't have an election right now.
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18,529
The president's not getting the job done.
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18,530
So the choice for America is, you can have a plan that I've laid out in four points, each of which I can tell you more about or you can go to johnkerry.com and see more of it; or you have the president's plan, which is four words: more of the same.
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18,531
I think my plan is better.
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18,532
And my plan has a better chance of standing up and fighting for those troops.
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18,536
Yes, I understand what it means to the commander in chief.
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18,537
And if I were to ever say, "This is the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place," the troops would wonder, how can I follow this guy?
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18,539
It's not a grand diversion.
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18,540
This is an essential that we get it right.
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18,545
Secretary of State Colin Powell told this president the Pottery Barn rule: If you break it, you fix it.
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18,547
It's the wrong thing to do.
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18,549
And then you've got to fix it and do something with it.
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18,553
I'm going to get it right for those soldiers, because it's important to Israel, it's important to America, it's important to the world, it's important to the fight on terror.
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18,554
But I have a plan to do it.
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I said, if we do the things that I've set out and we are successful, we could begin to draw the troops down in six months.
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18,562
And I think a critical component of success in Iraq is being able to convince the Iraqis and the Arab world that the United States doesn't have long-term designs on it.
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18,563
As I understand it, we're building some 14 military bases there now, and some people say they've got a rather permanent concept to them.
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18,567
What I want to do is change the dynamics on the ground.
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18,568
And you have to do that by beginning to not back off of the Fallujahs and other places, and send the wrong message to the terrorists.
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18,569
You have to close the borders.
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18,570
You've got to show you're serious in that regard.
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But you've also got to show that you are prepared to bring the rest of the world in and share the stakes.
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18,572
I will make a flat statement: The United States of America has no long-term designs on staying in Iraq.
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