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If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

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John F. Kerry
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 11
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If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.
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I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.
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