Saddam Hussein was the one, in the end, who chose continued defiance. And only then was the decision made, as a last resort, to go into Iraq.
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That's the NRA. We can speculate about their motives, but what's important is that the vice president was able to save himself and the American people by his quick action.
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We have to deal with reality. The reality is, we have a number a very high number of illegal immigrants in this country. They're meeting an important economic need. And we are a nation of laws, and we're a nation of immigrants. And if we're going to address the real threats, then we need to have a temporary worker program to allow our Border Patrol agents to focus on the criminals and the thugs and the terrorists and the traffickers and smugglers that are trying to come into this country illegally.
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Saddam Hussein was a dangerous threat. The world is safer because of the actions we took.
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It's going to be a very ugly scene, ... It's going to be an ugly situation when those floodwaters ultimately recede and we go in and start recovering larger numbers of bodies.
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This was a decision made by commanders and it's important that the commanders have the flexibility to make these types of tactical decisions in order to prevail, and we're making a lot of important progress on the ground in Iraq but this is a difficult time period.
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