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On the recordFebruary 11, 2004
candidate Governor Bush in 1999, he echoed the understanding of the threat that President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and others laid out. He called to mind an earlier time when free people were confronted with what he called rapid change and momentous choices. In was the 1930s, Nazi Germany is rearming, the British are reluctant to respond. Winston Churchill outlines to the people, the United Kingdom, what they are facing. Winston Churchill: ``The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience, of delays is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.'' For the United States, that day of consequences, the day where we suffered the consequences of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience, of delays through the 1990s, we suffered that day of consequence on 9-11, 2001. We want to move on a little bit and talk a little bit about what Dr. Kay has found relative to what the National Intelligence Estimate indicated we might find, and this is the backdrop of what President Clinton outlined during the 1990s and the Clinton administration outlined during the 1990s about the dangers of Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the consequences of U.S. foreign policy leading up to the 9/11 attacks.

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