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I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.