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"Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
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"Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians."
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"This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner."
War
"Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion."
Nation
"Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel."
Democracy
"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."
Military
"We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus."
Rules
"We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid."
Debt
"Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country."
Nation
"With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison."
Army
"We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers."
Money
"Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation."
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