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Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco

David L. Phillips - History - 2009 - 304 pages
...blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic. Time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as perils draw closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the most dangerous regimes...
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Executing the Constitution: Putting the President Back Into the Constitution

268 pages
...the peace of the world.. .. America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. ... I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I...will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer." 41 With this statement, the president made clear his intentions to wage war when he felt preventing...
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Epicenter 2.0: Why the Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your ...

Joel C. Rosenberg - Religion - 2012 - 430 pages
...blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic. . . . We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather.1 Lynn and I looked at each other as if we were living in an episode of The Twilight Zone. It...
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One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

Ron Suskind - History - 2006 - 404 pages
...weapons of mass destruction and might give them to terrorists. We, then, must act as if it's a certainty. "We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. ... I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's...
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Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World

Maureen Webb - History - 2007 - 324 pages
...allies ... an axis of evil" and indicated that he would use preemptive force against them. " [T] ime is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while...gather. I will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer."149 In June 2002, speaking at a graduation ceremony at the United States Military Academy at...
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Come to Think of it: Notes on the End of the Millennium

Daniel Schorr - Political Science - 2007 - 412 pages
...the impatience that some might feel." But last night, presidential patience suddenly yielded to this: "I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I...not stand by as peril draws closer and closer." The chilling suggestion of impending action not only against terrorist bands but against constituted governments...
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Post-9/11 American Presidential Rhetoric: A Study of Protofascist Discourse

Colleen E. Kelley - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 348 pages
...regardless: And all nations should know: America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. 1 will not stand by, as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit...
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Regime Change: U.S. Strategy Through the Prism of 9/11

Robert S. Litwak, Robert Litwak - Political Science - 2007 - 425 pages
...hatred." A sense of urgency and a baldly stated commitment flowed from this analysis of the threat: "Time is not on our side. I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. . . . The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us...
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Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1897

Howard Jones - History - 2008 - 640 pages
...terrorist allies," Bush alleged, "constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. We'll be deliberate; yet time is not on our side....as peril draws closer and closer. The United States will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive...
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America's "war on Terrorism": New Dimensions in U.S. Government and National ...

John E. Owens, John Dumbrell - History - 2008 - 278 pages
...seek chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons from threatening the United States and the world ... yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather" (Bush 2002a). Added to this is that "new technology requires new thinking" about when a threat actually...
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