07/19/2001
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"The people of Iraq can know that every effort will be made to spare innocent life and to help Iraq recover from three decades of totalitarian rule."
"We must recognize that some threats are so grave and their potential consequences so terrible that they must be removed, even if it requires military force."
"There is little reason to hope that Saddam Hussein will disarm."
"Saddam Hussein's regime ordered a chemical weapons attack on a village in Iraq called Halabja."