Over time the American people have been right. If they're not, they would have tossed in the towel on the Revolutionary War. We wouldn't have had a country. Think of the people who were telling Abraham Lincoln not to even have a civil war. We wouldn't have had the United States of America today if he'd believed that.
Rumsfeld argues that history shows the American people ultimately support the right decisions in times of war.
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