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Michael Scheuer

"We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq."

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"We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq."

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Asa Don Brown

"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."

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Asa Don Brown

"George W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes."

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Asa Don Brown

"I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed."

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Asa Don Brown

"The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq."

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Asa Don Brown

"Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard."

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Asa Don Brown

"Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'"

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Asa Don Brown

"We are not going to abandon Iraq."

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Asa Don Brown

"We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria."

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Asa Don Brown

"After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq."

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Asa Don Brown

"We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding."

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"Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about."
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