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"If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people."
-- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998
Let's add in the next paragraph:
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"There are no plans for any kind of ground invasion or ground activity. There's no thought of anything like that. I will say that we have supported the Iraq Liberation Act passed by the Congress. We would like to see a different kind of regime in Iraq. We've said that plenty of times. But this action is focussed specifically and precisely on preventing him or degrading his ability to get weapons of mass destruction or to threaten his neighbors and we're going to continue it until we achieve that objective."