[The hearings also came in the wake of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, with significant numbers of the National Guard of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama deployed in Iraq.] It is time we looked after our own backyard, ... We cannot do this as long as we continue to make Iraq the fifty-first state. |
a little bit of glorified advertising. |
Aren't we vulnerable then to another attack or his continued organization of an attack against us? ... It troubles me, and I am frustrated that his end is not in sight, nor is the end of his terrorist cadre in sight. |
Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat. |
Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore. |
He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have. |
He was a true, honest-to-goodness statesmen and a real, real dear friend of mine. I mourn his loss. There are a lot of tears on the floor of the Senate today. |
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president, |
I get beat up flying, ... One wonders how he did the traveling given his infirmity. He just kept on going, right to the day of his death. It's just unbelievable the strength, stamina and drive this guy had. |
I learned in Vietnam that the best way to support our troops is to either give them the forces and equipment needed to win or bring them home so we can care for those who have borne the battle, |
I think it's a little bit of gilding the lily, |
I think it's what we need -- it's the air cover, air dominance vehicle of the 21st century, |
I'm one of the three Vietnam veterans that George Bush went after. He came to my state five different times and they ran millions of dollars worth of ads with me and Saddam Hussein up there. |
If we don't know where [bin Laden] is, how can we go after him? |
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