“We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq and pay a bitter cost of casualties and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins.”

—  George W. Bush

2000s, 2003, Remarks on U.S.-British relations and foreign policy (November 2003)

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