We would have acted.

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We do believe we have acted consistent with the War Powers resolution and we do think it would be -- we would welcome the support of Congress in the form of a resolution similar to the one put forward by senators -- the bipartisan resolution put forward by Senators McCain and Kerry and others.

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But we acted because failure to do so would have led to catastrophe.

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"If we had not acted when we did, it probably would have fallen into the hands of terrorists, " he said.

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And in terms of the speed of our response, I would simply say that it is -- we have acted with the utmost urgency.

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He said that for the Iowa Supreme Court to have acted otherwise, it would have had to "ignore every other case we could find" with similar facts.

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