03/23/2009
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"If you are Assad or if you are any one of the other despots in that region, and the United States steps back from this moment... what is the message? The message is that he has been granted impunity."
"He is asking only for the power to make clear, to make certain, that the United States means what we say."
"The world wonders whether the United States of America will consent through silence to standing aside."
"We are stronger as a Nation when we do that."