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Being Americans, we prosecute wars to win them, not to have reasonable response, not to have appropriate levels of retaliation. Our theory is you start bombing our cities we're going to defeat you and make it impossible.

Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 17
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