Stephen Hadley
Stephen Hadley
Stephen John Hadleywas the 21st U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, serving under President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 February 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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For those critics to ignore their own past statements exposes the hollowness of their current attacks.
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The purpose of the summit is for the democratically elected leaders to get together and reaffirm the fact that there is really a shared vision for the hemisphere that is based on democracy and free markets and free trade.
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Suffice to say they didn't come to me. They didn't come to the NSC,
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I think our judgment is: That is a credible claim. But I think that we are going to learn a lot more as the investigation goes forward.
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His approach is to not to try and dominate but to participate as one of equals and listen, and that's what he did. At critical times he made his views obviously clear.
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But I think one of the things we've all learned from that is that it is important, also, to be clear about dissenting opinions and make sure that dissenting opinions also are given visibility.
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That said, one of the things we've also made clear -- and the president was trying to make clear the other night -- is when President Putin says that he is committed to democracy, people will obviously watch and see how that is manifested in action.
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The intelligence was clear in terms of the weapons of mass destruction.
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The language is agreed. The vehicle by which it is going to get enacted by the Congress is still being worked.
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I point out that some of the critics today believed, themselves, in 2002 that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. They stated that belief, and they voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
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There was a meeting in Washington on that date. I did attend a meeting with him.
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It's not deadlocked, ... We went from a summit which was supposed to bury FTAA to a summit ... in which all 34 countries actually talk in terms of enhanced trade and an FTAA.
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He served the president and the vice president well. There is now an indictment. And he is entitled to the benefit of the presumption of innocence,
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In terms of the administration and executive branch process, that process has been completed ... There's nothing to reopen. In terms of the CFIUS, process, it's been completed.