07/01/2008
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"We have a vital interest in the success of a free Iraq."
"Our country is also safer because of the historic changes that have come around the world in places like Afghanistan."
"Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, do proclaim that..."
"We're relying upon others."