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“If I’m president, we’ll have a military second to nobody in this world, and I won’t hesitate to use force 1 2 to achieve our goal.”
—Washington Post interview, May 28, 2004
Verbatim:
If I’m president, we’ll have a military second to nobody in this world, and I won’t hesitate to use force if necessary as a last resort to achieve our goal.
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