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The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

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Dick Cheney
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 30
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Former Vice President Of The United States
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Richard Bruce Cheney
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We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.
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It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.
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Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.
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The Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
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You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.
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The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists for the most part.
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I - obviously, I'm not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically.
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Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
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We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy.
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There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
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President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.
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The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I'm not at all sure that that's what the Obama administration believes.
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Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.
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We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.
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We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.
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I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.
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I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.
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Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.
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I wake up every morning literally with a smile on my face, grateful for another day I never thought I would see.
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The biggest threat we face is the possibility of terrorist groups like al Qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction, with nukes, bugs or gas. That was the threat after 9/11 and when we took down Saddam Hussein we eliminated Iraq as a potential source of that.
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