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Externally, they appear to be weapons of mass destruction, ... But until we get into them, look at them, analyze it, find out what it was, we're not going to know.

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There are other photos -- many other photos -- that depict incidents of physical violence towards prisoners, acts that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman, ... And I am advised there also are videos of these actions.

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We have seen repeated speculation about his possible location, but it has obviously not been verifiable, ... Had it been verifiable, one would have thought that someone might have done something about it.

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does not reflect the strategic realities of today.

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he was confident the military campaign would be successful in removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power. Things are going very well, ... the pressure is continuing on the Iraqi regime, and the regime will not be there in the period ahead.

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Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

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The terrorists who are attacking our way of life do not have armies, navies or air forces. They do not have capitals. They do not have high-value targets that the typical weapons of war can go in and attack.

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Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.

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Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

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I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that.

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There is no question but that 74.7 billion is a great deal of money, but the cost of not investing would be far greater, ... We need the funds. We need the flexibility as to how they are spent, so we can adapt to the unknowable circumstances that are unfolding in the weeks and months ahead.

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Like all alliances, this relationship must and is, in fact, evolving to remain strong and relevant, ... It's our joint responsibility to manage the alliance's evolution, and we are getting that job done.

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Insofar as I am aware, we have gotten everything from Saudi Arabia that we have asked them to do. I have been in touch with the Saudi leadership, and there is no question they are our friends.

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The site there says it all, ... The Pentagon is no longer smoking, and yet here we are so many weeks later and the World Trade Center is still burning, still smoking.

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The Soviet Union is gone. The cold war is over, ... The deterrence strategy does need to evolve so that it's appropriate for the kinds of emerging threats to exists.

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Remember where you came from.

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These are the people who took plastic knives and box cutters and flew airplanes filled with themselves, as well as American citizens, into the World Trade Center and this building you're sitting in (the Pentagon), ... Why would one be surprised that they're determined, well-trained, clever, capable of using modern technology ... to kill people

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In the event (war) becomes necessary, there would be the precipitating event of rejecting the inspectors, which would be such that people would nod and say, 'Fair enough If he's (Saddam Hussein) that determined to keep the weapons of mass destruction and that unwilling to disarm himself, then he must have a darn good reason and that isn't going to be very good for the neighborhood or for the rest of the world,'

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Oil had to be a factor in the White House calculations, even if the motivation was less about short-term U.S. oil supplies and more about future geopolitical power. In 2000, two-thirds of Persian Gulf oil went to Western industrial nations. By 2015, according to CIA estimates, three-quarters of the Gulf's oil will go to Asia, chiefly to China.

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know what they're doing. They're focusing on public opinion in the United States. They're trying to do things that are dramatic and affect that.

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In unanimity there may well be either cowardice or uncritical thinking.

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I'll just simply say they do have weapons of mass destruction, ... And the purpose of the U.N. resolution, of course, is for them to allow inspectors in and allow inspectors to make some conclusions.

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In Washington, Bush administration officials insisted the campaign against terror was going largely as expected, countering assertions by some critics that they may have underestimated the Taliban. We said it would be long. We said it would be difficult, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

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Well, I suppose that what they're trying to do is to capture press attention, obviously, and they've succeeded.

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Instead of an attack with 3,000 people killed, imagine an attack with a biological weapon that kills 30,000 or 300,000 innocent people.

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