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The danger to our country is grave. The danger to our country is growing.

The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction.

The weapons of mass destruction?

Are people going to find out the truth, and the truth will say that this intelligence is good intelligence, no doubt in my mind?

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Those weapons of mass destruction got to be somewhere.

Nope, no weapons over there.

President Bush has talked about our seeing in Iraq for 50 years, maybe 100.

There no doubt John McCain is going to be a war president. Can anybody see John McCain as sort of a peacetime Calvin Coolidge president?

It's preposterous. His whole career is wrapped up in the military, national security. He's in Putin's face, he's threatening the Iranians. We're going to be in Iraq 100 years.

The Bush administration has built a new generation of nuclear weapons that we call usable nooks.

And they have a nuclear posture now which permits the preemptive use of nuclear weapons in a non-nuclear environment

if the Commander-in-Chief deems U.S. forces to be its significant risk.

If we start bombing Iran, I'm telling you right now it's not going to work.

Bom Iran, bomb bomb bomb bomb.

My concern is that we will use nuclear weapons to break the backbone of Iranian resistance, and it may not work, but what it will do is this.

It will unleash the nuclear genie. And so for all those Americans out there tonight who say you know what?

Taken on Iran's a good thing.

My friends, I know how to handle the Iranians and I'll handle them.

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