America decided we were going to stand by and let Americans die at the hands of terrorists a long time ago.
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For his part, retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who has been speaking out as a Bush surrogate, has an op-ed piece in this morning's New York Times, accusing Kerry of distortions of history. ... The war against terrorism is the right war at the right time for the right reasons. And Iraq is one of the places that the war must be fought and won. George Bush has his eye on that ball, and Senator John Kerry does not.Tommy Franks
If we try to phase it in a way that we say, 'Well, we'll have an air war, and then we'll have some special operating forces and then we'll have a ground war,' then I think it starts to look a little too conventional, ... It begins to look a little too much like efforts we've seen in the past. As I've said, as the president has said, this is not a war like any war we have had before.
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If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
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In each conflict that our nation's been in throughout our history, we have had people hurt, and we've had people killed,
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This is about you... . You did it on time, you did it with a good plan, you did it with violent execution, you did it taking care of one another,
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