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Brent Scowcroft

"Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists."

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"Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists."

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"But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that."
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"If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would."
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"Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression."
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"To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him."
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"An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes."
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"Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not."
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"But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart."
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"So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature."
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"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."
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"You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently."
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