While a serving president, George W Bush opined about the antiwar movement: "First of all, you know, size of protests--it's like deciding, 'Well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group.' The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon, in this case, the security of the people." In other words, killing over a million Iraqis and Saddam Hussein was required for the security of the United States. So much for the security of Iraqis.
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