Quote of the Day:
May 23, 2013
“We did not go to Iraq to bring democracy any more than Roosevelt went to war against Hitler to democratize Germany, though that became American policy once the Nazis were defeated.”
-Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State, No Higher Honor, 2011
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