12/01/2002
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"I thank you for your courage and your bravery."
"Because of your hard work, because of your bravery and sacrifice, you are denying Al Qaida a safe haven from which to plot and plan and carry out attacks against the United States of America."
"Failure in Iraq... if we leave Iraq before the job is done, the enemy will follow us home."
"America is safer for it."