Exchange With Reporters Aboard Air Force One on the Persian Gulf Crisis
08/09/1990
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Let me put it to you this way. I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.
If we leave Iraq before our commanders say that we are ready we will be risking the future of Iraq.
The removal of Saddam Hussein was the right decision. America's more secure. The Iraqi people have a chance to live in a...
I know this, that Laura and I gave the presidency eight years of our lives. We gave it our all.