That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger…

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Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the...

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A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy...

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On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of...

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