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I don't think you can solve what's going on in Iraq unless you can deal effectively with the region and you can't deal effectively with the region if you start with the premise that you can't talk to people who disagree with you.

Wesley Clark

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Wesley Clark
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.
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Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.
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I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...
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Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.
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The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.
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I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.
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I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.
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Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
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I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.
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I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.
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I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.
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War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
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You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
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