28 Quotes by Joseph Cirincione

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    We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed.

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    The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.

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    Secretary Rice has implemented a subtle but important shift in U.S. policy. There is no question that the lack of flexibility for the negotiators precluded any possibility of getting a deal for the past three years. Clearly, we are now in a period of give-and-take and genuine negotiations.

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    Secretary Rice has implemented a subtle but important shift in U.S. policy, ... There is no question that the lack of flexibility for the negotiators precluded any possibility of getting a deal for the past three years. Clearly, we are now in a period of give-and-take and genuine negotiations.

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    I think the Chapter 7 route is dead on arrival. The US can keep talking about it, but our own policies have doomed it.

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    It is no surprise nations like South Korea are beginning to hedge their bets in light of the North Korean nuclear weapons advances.

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    We exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.

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