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"All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this way, they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies."

Right around minute 29 at this recording (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html is the web page for the State of the Union address, including the transcript.) The written quote doesn't capture the grim cowboy expression though.

I might agree or disagree with many other points in the SotU, but this is the one that sticks with me. And it makes me ill.

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Date: 2003-01-30 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookishfellow.livejournal.com
That made me shudder too. It also brought me right back to the pre-election debate, where he casually tossed off a remark about how a couple hate-crime perpetrators in Texas were going to be put to death, sounding 100% sure that that was something to be proud of.

Yeesh.

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