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Speaker 1: the Democrats always seem to be Outsmartinus, they always seem

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Speaker 1: to be a couple of steps ahead of us. There

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Speaker 1: pr always seemed to be brilliant and coordinated and organized.

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Speaker 1: I think they're not winning elections these days. There and there,

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Speaker 1: there there. That party is falling apart, whether anybody wants

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Speaker 1: to admit it or not. The Democrat Party is falling apart.

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Speaker 1: The idea that the Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and John

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Speaker 1: Kerry and Jack Mirtha represent a brilliant pr campaign and team.

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Speaker 1: I just I reject that, and I don't fall prey

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Speaker 1: to that. The one thing I do want to talk

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Speaker 1: about though, before you go, and that is you wish

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Speaker 1: the President had come out more often and uh and

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Speaker 1: more forcefully reminding the American people is a worthy cause.

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Speaker 1: And here's what we're doing. This is why it's gonna

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Speaker 1: take a long time. We can't level a country because

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Speaker 1: we're trying to establish a beacon of democracy there. We

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Speaker 1: need to show the Iraqi people that we have nothing

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Speaker 1: not gonna blow up their schools, We're not gonna level

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Speaker 1: the country. Um. And and thus it's gonna take a

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Speaker 1: long time. We're battling a number of surgencies and so

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Speaker 1: forth terrorist actions. Uh, and it's a new kind of warfare.

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Speaker 1: I would love for that to have happened as well.

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Speaker 1: But more than that, I would have loved a really

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Speaker 1: true American projection of power. Had there been a true

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Speaker 1: American projection of power, had there really been shock and all.

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Speaker 1: I think the American people would have a little bit

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Speaker 1: more understanding or patients for this, and apparently the polls

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Speaker 1: say that they have. I'm glad you called Marty. Thanks

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