As the president said in April, The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a crushing defeat for the forces of tyranny and terror, and a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. ... Political progress is necessary to defeat the insurgency.
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need to speed up the process by which Iraqis assume greater responsibility for their own security.Donald Rumsfeld
People have been moving together, talking, discussing things, ... You can always find someone who's going to try to be a dead-ender and say, 'If you don't do this, I won't do that.' But that's part of negotiation. We see that in the Congress and we see it in democratic systems all over the world.
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It's 16 to three. I think it's a mistake, and what we have to do for the United States is to make sure that planning does go forward.
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The new government would be an Iraq that would be for the Iraqi people. It wouldn't be a regime determined from the outside of Iraq, ... nonsense.
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problem that's faced by police forces in every major city in our country - that criminals infiltrate and sign up to join the police force.
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The Republic of Korea, an impoverished and devastated nation over a half-century ago, now has one of the world's most powerful economies and is an important democracy with a large and increasingly capable armed force,
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