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"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange."
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"I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition."
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"The devil hates the people who build the broken walls, he detests those who restore them."
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"Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat."
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"Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought."
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"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange."
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"All those that don't allow us to do things for the Soul (our True Self), they are our opposers (kashays); we shouldn't listen to them."
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"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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"Every victory and success that God will give you will make others jealous it will cause hatred and opposition as well."
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"Nobody me without my enemy."
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"So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game."
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"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."
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"It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place."
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"I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way."
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"I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it."
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"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980."
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"I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should."
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"In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange."
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"Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously."
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"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
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"While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with."
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