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22,651
I wanted to give Clinton the power to use force if necessary.
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22,653
I would have brought our allies to our side.
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22,656
And Iran now is more dangerous, and so is North Korea, with nuclear weapons.
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22,666
You remember the last debate?
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22,667
My opponent said that America must pass a global test before we used force to protect ourselves.
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22,668
That's the kind of mindset that says sanctions were working.
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22,669
That's the kind of mindset that said, "Let's keep it at the United Nations and hope things go well."
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22,670
Saddam Hussein was a threat because he could have given weapons of mass destruction to terrorist enemies.
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22,674
The goal of the sanctions was not to remove Saddam Hussein, it was to remove the weapons of mass destruction.
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22,678
And if we'd used smart diplomacy, we could have saved $200 billion and an invasion of Iraq.
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22,679
And right now, Osama bin Laden might be in jail or dead.
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22,680
That's the war against terror.
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22,687
I have laid out a different plan, because the president's plan is not working.
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22,688
You see that every night on television.
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22,690
King Abdullah of Jordan said just yesterday or the day before you can't hold elections in Iraq with the chaos that's going on today.
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22,693
Senator Hagel of Nebraska said that the handling of Iraq is beyond pitiful, beyond embarrassing; it's in the zone of dangerous.
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22,699
They discussed the possibility of a small training unit or having a total takeover of the training in Iraq.
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22,700
Did our administration push for the total training of Iraq?
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22,704
Was there an effort to bring all the allies together around that?
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22,706
You know, they even had the Defense Department issue a memorandum saying, "Don't bother applying for assistance or for being part of the reconstruction if you weren't part of our original coalition."
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22,707
Now, that's not a good way to build support and reduce the risk for our troops and make America safer.
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22,708
I'm going to get the training done for our troops.
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22,709
I'm going to get the training of Iraqis done faster.
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22,710
And I'm going to get our allies back to the table.
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22,711
Two days ago in the Oval Office, I met with the finance minister from Iraq.
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22,714
Think about it: They're going from tyranny to elections.
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22,715
He talked about the reconstruction efforts that are beginning to take hold.
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22,716
He talked about the fact that Iraqis love to be free.
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22,717
He said he was optimistic when he came here, then he turned on the TV and listened to the political rhetoric and all of a sudden he was pessimistic.
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22,718
Now, this is guy a who, along with others, has taken great risk for great freedom.
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22,719
And we need to stand with him.
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22,725
And what is he going to say to those people that show up at the summit?
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22,726
Join me in the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place.
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22,728
Nobody is going to follow somebody who doesn't believe we can succeed and with somebody who says that war where we are is a mistake.
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22,731
I talk to Tony Blair all the time.
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22,732
I talk to Silvio Berlusconi.
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22,736
And Iraq is going to be free, and America will be better off for it.
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22,739
Ladies and gentlemen, the right war was Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan.
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22,743
That was the reason Congress gave him the authority to use force, not after excuse to get rid of the regime.
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22,744
Now we have to succeed.
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22,749
And secondly, it's a fundamental misunderstanding to say that the war on terror is only Osama bin Laden.
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22,750
The war on terror is to make sure that these terrorist organizations do not end up with weapons of mass destruction.
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22,751
That's what the war on terror is about.
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22,752
Of course, we're going to find Osama bin Laden.
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22,753
We've already 75 percent of his people.
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22,754
And we're on the hunt for him.
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22,767
He stood on principle standing up to the Soviet Union, and we won that conflict.
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22,768
Yet at the same time, he was very -- we were very unpopular in Europe because of the decisions he made.
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22,769
I recognize that taking Saddam Hussein out was unpopular.
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22,772
I wouldn't deal with Arafat, because I felt like he had let the former president down, and I don't think he's the kind of person that can lead toward a Palestinian state.
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22,776
I made a decision not to join the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which is where our troops could be brought to -- brought in front of a judge, an unaccounted judge.
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22,777
I don't think we ought to join that.
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22,779
And so, what I'm telling you is, is that sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.
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22,780
We'll continue to reach out.
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22,783
Sometimes they don't like the decisions made by America, but I don't think you want a president who tries to become popular and does the wrong thing.
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22,784
You don't want to join the International Criminal Court just because it's popular in certain capitals in Europe.
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22,786
Nikki, that's a question that's been raised by a lot of people around the country.
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22,787
Let me address it but also talk about the weapons the president just talked about, because every part of the president's answer just now promises you more of the same over the next four years.
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22,788
The president stood right here in this hall four years ago, and he was asked a question by somebody just like you, "Under what circumstances would you send people to war?"
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22,789
And his answer was, "With a viable exit strategy and only with enough forces to get the job done."
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22,795
They retired General Shinseki for telling him that.
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22,798
I went to New York.
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22,799
I talked to all of them to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable.
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22,804
He rushed to war without a plan to win the peace.
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22,805
Ladies and gentleman, he gave you a speech and told you he'd plan carefully, take every precaution, take our allies with us.
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22,814
Of course, I listen to our generals.
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22,815
That's what a president does.
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22,816
A president sets the strategy and relies upon good military people to execute that strategy.
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22,818
You rely on good military people to execute the military component of the strategy, but winning the peace is larger than just the military component.
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22,819
General Shinseki had the wisdom to say, "You're going to need several hundred thousand troops to win the peace."
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22,820
The military's job is to win the war.
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22,823
Didn't bring in enough nation.
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22,825
Didn't close off the borders.
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22,827
And now our kids are being killed with ammos right out of that dump.
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22,836
But you're absolutely correct, it is a threat, it's a huge threat.
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22,838
If he'd let the inspectors do their job and go on, we wouldn't have 10 times the numbers of forces in Iraq that we have in Afghanistan chasing Osama bin Laden.
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22,840
For two years, the president didn't even engage with North Korea, did nothing at all, while it was growing more dangerous, despite the warnings of former Secretary of Defense William Perry, who negotiated getting television cameras and inspectors into that reactor.
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22,841
We were safer before President Bush came to office.
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22,844
We've got to join with the British and the French, with the Germans, who've been involved, in their initiative.
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22,845
We've got to lead the world now to crack down on proliferation as a whole.
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22,846
But the president's been slow to do that, even in Russia.
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22,847
At his pace, it's going to take 13 years to reduce and get ahold of all the loose nuclear material in the former Soviet Union.
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22,854
That answer almost made me want to scowl.
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22,855
He keeps talking about, "Let the inspectors do their job."
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22,861
And that's why we're doing what he suggested we do: Get the Brits, the Germans and the French to go make it very clear to the Iranians that if they expect to be a party to the world to give up their nuclear ambitions.
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22,864
It is naive and dangerous to take a policy that he suggested the other day, which is to have bilateral relations with North Korea.
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22,865
Remember, he's the person who's accusing me of not acting multilaterally.
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22,866
He now wants to take the six-party talks we have -- China, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Japan and the United States -- and undermine them by having bilateral talks.
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22,867
That's what President Clinton did.
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22,872
That is a bad policy.
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22,873
Of course, we're paying attention to these.
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22,874
It's a great question about Iran.
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22,883
I hear there's rumors on the Internets (sic) that we're going to have a draft.
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22,886
It works particularly when we pay our troops well.
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22,890
One of the things we've done is we've taken the -- we're beginning to transform our military.
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22,892
We don't need as much manpower on the Korean Peninsula to keep a deterrent.
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22,895
So to answer your question is, we're withdrawing, not from the world, we're withdrawing manpower so they can be stationed here in America, so there's less rotation, so life is easier on their families and therefore more likely to be -- we'll be more likely to be able to keep people in the all-volunteer army.
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22,897
There are some really interesting technologies.
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22,898
For instance, we're flying unmanned vehicles that can send real- time messages back to stations in the United States.
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22,899
That saves manpower, and it saves equipment.
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