Interview With Telemundo
03/19/2002
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These ties endure because they are formed by the experience and responsibilities and adversity we have shared.
Democracy will succeed in Iraq, because our will is firm, our word is good, and the Iraqi people will not surrender their freedom.
We will stay until Iraq is allowed to emerge as a free society.
We cannot turn a blind eye to oppression just because the oppression is not in our own backyard.