"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth."

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Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

— George H. W. Bush