02/05/1991
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"Somebody said, well, we had made up our mind to go -- to use military force to deal with Saddam. There is nothing farther from the truth."
"And our greatest fear is that terrorists will find a shortcut to their mad ambitions when an outlaw regime supplies them with technologies to kill on a massive scale."
"Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final prove. The smoking gun that could..."
"We found the weapons of mass destruction."