On the recordNovember 18, 2005
how do you withdraw from the war on terror when we have been attacked over and over and over again? We were attacked at the World Trade Centers, the first time by a bomb. Then our African embassies were attacked; the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia where our young men and women were killed; the Cole naval vessel; and then 9/11. How do you tell Osama bin Laden and Zarqawi that we do not want to participate, we do not want to fool with fighting against terror? The last administration tried that, and we felt the pain of death and destruction on 9/11 from terrorist murderers' hands. We have to win in Iraq. By the way, we won the war in Iraq. Now we are fighting with our allies in Iraq to defeat terror. If we do not win in Iraq, we will fail in the greater Middle East, and what happens if Pakistan falls? What happens if Saudi Arabia falls? Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.
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