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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

We've got to keep moving them down Ambassador Bremer's seven-point plan towards developing a constitution, ratifying a constitution, and ultimately having elections and transferring sovereignty.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

What that called for was regime change in Baghdad, because we had been fussing around for a long period of time with Saddam Hussein.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

I'm from the 'show me' State, and what they're showing us is that the battle against terrorism is being carried out in Iraq today.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

I was in the Congress, in the 105th Congress, when we put forward the Iraq Liberation Act.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

It does no good to supply $66 billion for maintaining our troops if there's no exit strategy.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

One slight suggestion I would make to you, as you go about rebuilding Iraq, there is a great pool of resources available in the United States in the small business area.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

We have to do what I believe this administration is doing.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

I said, 'Well, get them to us. I'll go to the floor of the United States Senate, and I know about 18,000 or 19,000 C-SPAN junkies.'

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

Saddam has been a problem for a long period of time.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

It seems to me that that is a very important part of this story that needs to be told.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

We need to emulate the military practice of using overwhelming force in the beginning.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

I hope you do not become McNamara. I hope you do not give us rosy scenarios that can't possibly play out.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

Some Iraqis are beginning to regard us as occupiers and not as liberators.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

I don't believe that the United States has anything to apologize for, but I wonder if, in hindsight...

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

The President seeks as part of this $87 billion supplemental bespeak grandeur of vision equal to the one which created the free world at the end of World War II.

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Sam Brownback
@sambrownback· Republican · KS· Sep 22, 2003

The $20.3 billion in grants to Iraq the President seeks as part of this $87 billion supplemental bespeak grandeur of vision equal to the one which created the free world at the end of the Second World War.

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