Instead, suffering from a lack of what we want with no avenue to get what we want, we go to war in order to forcibly take that which would otherwise reach us through voluntary, mutually wealth-enhancing exchange.

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And as president, I will bring back this nation's time-honored tradition: The United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to.

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And the guy you just played a tape of there, he also told a passerby that we want to start a war in London.

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"We want to end this war, " Gul said.

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Secondly, to the extent possible, we want the Afghans to win their own war.

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We want to win the entertainment platform war.

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Number five, as we are ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I want to take some of the money that we save and put it to work doing some nation-building here at home.

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And today, I want to update you on how we will end this war, bring our troops home, and continue the work of rebuilding America.

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"Because of their age, a lot of war memorials are beginning to fade and we want to make sure that the information on them is preserved for posterity, " said Mr Rees.

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"The main reason he didn't want me to go join the military is in case we go to war, " 18-year-old Joel Hernandez told the Brownsville Herald.

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These are precisely the things the reformers say they want to avoid and that we can ill-afford during a time of war.

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But as they're now coming home, I want to take about half the money that we're saving after a decade of war and let's help put veterans and Americans back to work rebuilding America, doing some nation-building here at home. (Applause.) Let's rebuild our ports and our roads and our bridges and our airports.

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