12/09/2004
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"The United States is grateful to the U.N. and to every person and every nation that has joined this cause."
"Our commitment to human dignity is challenged by persistent poverty and raging disease."
"The people of the United States will never forget your leadership in the days following September the 11th."
"Had Saddam Hussein been appeased instead of stopped, he would have endangered the peace and stability of the world."