Remarks Honoring the NCAA Spring Championship Teams
09/23/2002
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We cannot turn a blind eye to oppression just because the oppression is not in our own backyard.
Democracy will succeed in Iraq, because our will is firm, our word is good, and the Iraqi people will not surrender their freedom.
I think what's safe to say is that the initial phase of the war went well.
We will help the Iraqi people establish a peaceful and democratic country in the heart of the Middle East.