U.S. Military Commitments and Ongoing Military Operations Abroad: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, September 9, 2003 |
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... terrorists from reaching our shores . As the Presi- dent stated so eloquently on Sunday evening , and I quote him : " And for America there will be no going back to the era be- fore September 11 , 2001 , to false comfort in a dangerous ...
... terrorists from reaching our shores . As the Presi- dent stated so eloquently on Sunday evening , and I quote him : " And for America there will be no going back to the era be- fore September 11 , 2001 , to false comfort in a dangerous ...
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... terrorists around the world have been captured and many terrorist operations have been dis- rupted . That is progress . In Iraq , Saddam Hussein's reign of terror has ended , never to return . The threat he posed to his people , his ...
... terrorists around the world have been captured and many terrorist operations have been dis- rupted . That is progress . In Iraq , Saddam Hussein's reign of terror has ended , never to return . The threat he posed to his people , his ...
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... terrorists and dismantling terrorist networks , as important as that is . It also requires winning on what I would call the second front of the war on terror , what the President called in his State of the Union mes- sage building a ...
... terrorists and dismantling terrorist networks , as important as that is . It also requires winning on what I would call the second front of the war on terror , what the President called in his State of the Union mes- sage building a ...
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... terrorist networks . As large as these costs are , they are still small compared to just the economic price that the attacks of September 11 inflicted , to say nothing of the ... terrorists and Baathists understand clearly that our 10.
... terrorist networks . As large as these costs are , they are still small compared to just the economic price that the attacks of September 11 inflicted , to say nothing of the ... terrorists and Baathists understand clearly that our 10.
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... terrorists and Baathists understand clearly that our will cannot be broken and that the Iraqi people , despite hardship and difficulty , will persevere in building their new soci- ety , the sooner we will win . That is why it is so ...
... terrorists and Baathists understand clearly that our will cannot be broken and that the Iraqi people , despite hardship and difficulty , will persevere in building their new soci- ety , the sooner we will win . That is why it is so ...
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Page 139 - Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Page 53 - We will work with the UN Security Council for the necessary resolutions. But the purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced — the just demands of peace and security will be met — or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Page 13 - ... for their own defense and their own .future. "First, we are taking direct action against the terrorists in the Iraqi theater, which is the surest way to prevent future attacks on coalition forces and the Iraqi people.... "Second, we are committed to expanding international cooperation in the recovery and security of Iraq, just as we are in Afghanistan. . . . "Third, we are encouraging the orderly transfer of sovereignty and authority to the Iraqi people. Our coalition came to Iraq as liberators...
Page 53 - All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?
Page 113 - But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch. American blood flowed in my veins. I thought of a remark which Edward Grey had made to me more than thirty years before — that the United States is like "a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
Page 14 - ... in the war on terror The rest ($21 billion) provides for essential investments in infrastructure and security for Iraq and Afghanistan that can help bring the stability our forces need. The undertaking in Iraq, as the President told the nation a couple weeks ago, is "difficult and costly — yet worthy of our country, and critical to our security.
Page 56 - ... planned for 2005. • We have begun consultations with allies and friends about ways to transform our global force posture to further increase capability. We are also working to rebalance the active and reserve components. We are taking skills that are now found almost exclusively in reserve components and moving them into the active force, so that we are not completely reliant on the Guard and Reserve for those needed skills. And in both the active and reserve components, we are moving forces...
Page 21 - We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
Page 22 - The US national security strategy will be based on a distinctly American internationalism that reflects the union of our values and our national interests. The aim of this strategy is to help make the world not just safer but better. Our goals on the path to progress are clear: political and economic freedom, peaceful relations with other states, and respect for human dignity.