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George W. Bush: If we were to leave Iraq before the job is done, there would be chaos, and out of chaos would become vacuums, and into…

On the recordFebruary 14, 2007
If we were to leave Iraq before the job is done, there would be chaos, and out of chaos would become vacuums, and into those power vacuums would flow extremists.
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George W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Remarks to the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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