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Bushism of the Day

By |Posted Monday, Jan. 30, 2006, at 12:28 PM ET

"He was a state sponsor of terror. In other words, the government had declared, you are a state sponsor of terror."—On Saddam Hussein, Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 23, 2006

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