Verbatim: Oct. 20, 2003

"Instead of losing thousands of lives, we might lose tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of lives in a single day of war." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, defending the war in Iraq as a crucial step in preventing future terrorist attacks

"The record can show that I constantly rejected any participation in 9/11 ... I was part of a different operation, with different al-Qaeda member and target." ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, the only person charged in a U.S. court in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, in a motion written in January and made public last week

"If his eyes had...

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