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"In 2003 'we did something that was right and courageous, which was to overthrow Saddam Hussein,' says Mr. Lieberman. 'He was a genocidal dictator, he tried to assassinate a former American president, he used chemical weapons [on his] . . . own people . . . He was a hater of the United States.' Saddam was a danger, not to mention a barrier to creating a democratic Middle East that ceases to be a threat to the U.S.
This is why the senator remains unmoved today by those colleagues who have abandoned the cause, lamenting that they were 'deceived' about the existence of WMD or that they have 'lost confidence in the leadership of the president.' Says Mr. Lieberman: 'If you still think, not only that the original purpose of going in was right, but that how it ends will have a significant effect on American security for a generation or more to come, then you don't back away.' And that, he says, counts even in the face of faltering public opinion. 'I think we are elected to lead. . . . Americans are understandably responding to the carnage they see on TV every night, and what we have to urge them is not to surrender to the people who are causing that carnage.'"
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