“We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.”

—  Barack Obama

Remarks Against Going to War with Iraq http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mheaney/Partisan_Dynamics_of_Contention.pdf (2 October 2002).
2000-03

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