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TO THESE PRISONS ESTIMATES 90% OF THESE PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED BY MISTAKE. IT IS NOT A GOOD WAY TO MAKE FRIENDS. NUMBER THREE, THE ATTACK ON THE MOVEMENT...
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| 00:04:15 |
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I HAD AS -- A SPEECH THAT I PREPARED BUT I AM NOT GOING TO GIVE IT. I THINK THE GENTLEMAN AND HIS VIEWS -- I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FOR THEM. HE EARNED...
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| 00:04:33 |
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ON THE GROUND, HE OBSERVED THEM, HE OBSERVED THINGS FROM A PERSPECTIVE THAT IS DIFFICULT TO GET RIGHT NOW AND THAT IS THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE IRAQI PEOPLE....
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| 00:08:20 |
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VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR DURING US TODAY IN
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| 00:08:23 |
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THE GALLERY. IT IS AN HONOR TO SPEAK HERE TODAY ABOUT MY BOOK. THE TITLE OF MY BOOK WAS BARRED FROM A BOOK WRITTEN IN 1967. IN
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| 00:08:37 |
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THE BOOK, IT IS ARGUED THAT THE UNITED STATES SHOULD PULL OUT OF VIETNAM IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY. BUT PREDICT THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT HEEDING...
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| 00:14:56 |
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STAND AND CLAP OLLIE WHAT. OK, WE'RE MOVING RIGHT ALONG. NEXT WE WILL HAVE A N -- THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK. >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY....
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| 00:15:38 |
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THE NUMBER ONE STORY IN AMERICA WAS JANET JACKSON'S SUPERABLE WARDROBE MALFUNCTION. IT RATTLED THE. I KNEW VETERANS WERE COMING HOME. AMERICA DID NOT...
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| 00:19:28 |
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THANK YOU. >> MAKE SURE YOUR MICROPHONE IS ON AND SPEAK INTO IT. >> I RECENTLY RECEIVED AN E- MAIL FROM A FEMALE MARINE WHO IS IN IRAQ AND SHE SAID "A...
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| 00:19:50 |
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SOME QUESTION AND CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE WORDING AND REPORT
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| 00:19:53 |
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OF THE INCIDENT."
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| 00:19:57 |
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ON A DEFENSE LINK WEBSITE THERE WERE THREE PEOPLE IN THIS INCIDENT AND THEY WERE IN THE SAME TRUCK TREAT -- SAND TRUCK AND SAME CONVOY. TWO MEN AND ONE...
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| 00:23:21 |
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US HERE. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES AT THE TABLE FOR THE HARD WORK THEY HAVE PUT IN ON A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE. [APPLAUSE] >>
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| 00:23:35 |
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I WOULD LIKE TO START BY MAKING A PICK -- A QUICK POINT. RISING CONCERN ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ. I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE WAR WAS LOST THE DAY...
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| 00:23:57 |
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FROM VIETNAM 35 YEARS AGO I HAVE BEEN DEDICATING MY LIFE TO LEARNING LESSONS AND TO TEACHING, STUDY, PUBLISHING ON THE PROCESS OF TAKING A NATION TO...
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| 00:26:59 |
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FOR HOLDING THIS EVENT AND FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON ENDING THE WAR IN IRAQ. WE REALLY THINK YOU VERY MUCH. [APPLAUSE] I WROTE THIS BOOK
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| 00:27:14 |
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TO ADDRESS THE QUESTION OF NOT WHAT ARE THE FALSE REASONS FOR WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION GAVE US, BUT RATHER, WHAT ARE THE REASONS WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION...
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| 00:32:00 |
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NOW I AM GOING TO TURN TO CONGRESSWOMAN WOOLSEY FOR QUESTIONS. >> THANK YOU, ALL, VERY MUCH. AND TO THE AUDIENCE, YOUR WONDERFUL. I HAVE TO TELL YOU...
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| 00:32:45 |
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EFFORTS AND DEEPER CUT RIGID BE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS. I WILL TELL YOU, IT WILL BE DESERVED WHEN OUR TROOPS ARE HOME. [APPLAUSE] WHEN THE IRAQIS HAVE THEIR...
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| 00:35:18 |
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YOU COULD NOT PICK UP THE MAGAZINE WITHOUT RECOGNIZING THAT THERE WAS A BATTLEFIELD AND IN THAT BATTLEFIELD, BOTH PEOPLE IN GERMANY AND JAPANESE AND...
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| 00:37:13 |
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HE HAS IT IN THE TITLE OF HIS BOOK. I THINK ONE OF THE OTHER AUTHORS TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE. COLIN POWELL IS REMEMBERED BY EVERYONE...
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| 00:39:03 |
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WAS VERY INTERESTED SELLING THIS WAR NOT JUST TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC BUT TO THE WORLD. THAT IS WHY THEY SET THIS HEARING AT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL....
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| 00:41:46 |
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OF YEARS STOP PUTTING A DOCTRINE -- IS STUDYING A DOCTRINE.
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| 00:41:56 |
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MY DISSERTATION WAS ON MILITARY LESSONS IN VIETNAM. THE ONLY OTHER DISSERTATION OUT THERE WAS BY SOME OBSCURE ARMY GENERAL BY THE NAME OF PETRAEUS....
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| 00:44:32 |
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ADMINISTRATION WITH THE PRICE BEING GOOD TO GIVE THAT SPEECH.
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| 00:44:37 |
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HIS CALCULATION WAS THAT THE PRICE OF GIVING THIS SPEECH WAS GOING TO BE LESS THAN WHAT HE COULD AFFORD TO PAY AND THAT THERE BY HE WOULD PRESERVE HIS...
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| 00:47:38 |
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NEGOTIATIONS AS EVERYONE WHO JUST SPOKE, BUT I CAN'T HELP -- TELL YOU THAT ALL OF THE OTHER IRAQI LEADERS WHO ARE IN EXILE HAD TO FIND THEIR OWN WAY...
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| 00:47:55 |
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SADDAM HUSSAIN'S OLD PALACES. I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST GOT TO IRAQ IN APRIL 2003 RIGHT AFTER THE FALL OF SADDAM HUSSAIN, PEOPLE WERE SO HAPPY THAT HE...
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| 00:49:04 |
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THAT? >> ACTUALLY, THAT WAS THE SUBJECT -- ONE OF THE TOPICS OF MY BOOK. I ALSO DID AN ARTICLE RECENTLY CALLED "-- AND "ROLLING STONE" WHICH FOCUSED...
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| 00:49:28 |
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GOVERNMENT. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HIRED A PUBLIC RELATIONS PERSON TO LARGELY CREATE THIS ORGANIZATION -- THE IRAQI NATIONAL CONGRESS, AND THEN THEY PUT...
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| 00:50:07 |
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THAT MONEY LASTED UNTIL 1995 WHEN THE CIA DETERMINED THREAT ON BASIS OF DETERMINATION,
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| 00:50:15 |
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NOT JUST THE FACT THAT HE WAS CONVICTED IN THAT -- IN ABSENTIA FOR BANK FRAUD BUT THE CIA DECIDED TO GET RID OF THE CONTRACT. HE THEN LANDED A CONTRACT...
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| 00:51:51 |
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OWN NODUS, BUT THAT STILL DID NOT AFFECT THE FACT THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WENT ON SUPPORTING IT. I THINK THAT IS WHERE THE FACTS THAT PUSHES BE PURPLE...
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| 00:52:35 |
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THIS USED -- MORPHED SADDAM HUSSEIN WITH OSAMA BIN LAWTON, MORPHED IRAQ WITH AFGHANISTAN, AND IT WAS NOT -- IT WAS JUST BLAST STATE OF THE UNION THAT...
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| 00:54:09 |
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OR NOT ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS OR HARD QUESTIONS. I FELT THAT THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA REPORTED IT. THEY WERE THE ONES ASKING THE HARD QUESTIONS. I...
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| 00:56:18 |
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MASS DESTRUCTION CLEARLY SWUNG MUCH OF OPINION -- IT HAD AN EFFECT ON OPINION.
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| 00:56:23 |
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THERE WAS SOME POLLING THAT WAS DONE IN THE YEAR AFTER WORD WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT DISMAYED BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT EVEN THOUGH NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION...
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| 00:59:40 |
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AND 15 MILLION PEOPLE OR MORE AROUND THE
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| 00:59:43 |
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WORLD DID PROTEST IN OPPOSITION TO
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| 00:59:45 |
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THE WAR. THAT WAS A TREMENDOUS REDUCTION OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR WILLINGNESS OF PEOPLE TO MAKE A STAND AND -- WHEN THE WAR MAY HAPPEN -- WHEN THE...
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| 01:02:43 |
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CONTRACTORS AND IN YOUR DISCUSSION ABOUT THE RIP-OFF THAT HAS BEEN PERPETRATED BY HALLIBURTON. WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE HEARINGS THAT...
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| 01:06:06 |
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WRITING ABOUT IT, AND ACTING IT AT LEAST SINCE THE ADMINISTRATION OF RONALD REAGAN, AS YOU HAVE ALLUDED TO. REAGAN'S ADMINISTRATION WAS THE FIRST TO...
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| 01:09:43 |
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ENERGY POLICY AND WE WERE DENIED ACCESS TO ALL OF THAT INFORMATION ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SUPREME COURT? ARE YOU DESCRIBING NOW SOME INFORMATION THAT TOOK...
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| 01:10:26 |
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THAT WAS VERY KEY PREWAR PLANNING THAT TOOK PLACE IN THAT ROOM. >> AT THE NATIONAL SECURITY CARD -- ARCHIVED WE SPECIALIZE IN THIS WHOLE QUESTION OF RELEASING...
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| 01:10:55 |
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JUST TO FINISH THIS. THOSE OIL COMPANIES IN THOSE COUNTRIES WERE NOT WILLING TO ARE ACTUALLY GO HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH THE UNITED STATES SANCTIONS REGIME....
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| 01:11:13 |
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REALITY THAT A GLOBAL PUBLIC OPINION HAS TURNED AGGRESSIVELY AGAINST THE SANCTIONS. IF THE SANCTIONS
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| 01:11:18 |
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WERE REMOVED, AND IT -- AND SADDAM HUSSEIN REMAINED IN POWER, ALL OF THOSE CONTRACTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WOULD COME INTO PLAY AND THE UNITED STATES...
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| 01:12:33 |
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THAT WAS DECLASSIFIED AT THE REQUEST OF JUDICIAL WASHED -- WATCH, WHICH IS A NON- GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION LOCATED OUT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY....
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| 01:12:52 |
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START IN IRAQ DOCUMENT GENERAL REPOSITORY OF DOCUMENTATION THAT ANYBODY WILL BE ABLE TO COME TO AND REFERENCE A WIDE VARIETY OF IRAQI RECORDS. >> THANK...
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| 01:13:25 |
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FOR GOING INTO IRAQ. IT IS VERY CLEAR, WHICH IS WHAT IS BEING TALKED
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| 01:13:30 |
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ABOUT NOW, REARRANGING THE DOMINOES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THAT WAS VERY HIGH ON THE NEW CONSERVATIVE AGENDA THROUGHOUT THE 1990'S AND THAT FACTOR, AT LEAST...
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| 01:14:15 |
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TALK ABOUT THIS IN WAYS THAT YOU WOULD NOT NORMALLY GET OUT OF OUR COMMITTEES, ETC. BUT I DO RECALL THAT AND IT WAS MADE AWARE BY SOME OF OUR JOURNALISTS...
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| 01:16:24 |
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EXPLORED, BUT THAT IT SITS IN A REGION WHERE THERE ARE MAJOR SHIPMENT ROUTES AND IT SITS IN A REGION WITH THE WORLD'S MAJORITY OF NATURAL GAS RESERVES...
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| 01:18:59 |
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SEVERAL HOURS TO PLEASE COME FORWARD. I
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| 01:19:02 |
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WANTED THEM TO HAVE THE LAST WORD ON THIS SESSION BY WAY OF QUESTIONS OR STATEMENTS AND I
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| 01:19:08 |
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SEE THAT THEY ARE JUST ABOUT TO EXIT
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| 01:19:10 |
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THE ROOM. BEFORE
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| 01:19:12 |
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THEY DO THAT, IN ADDITION TO OUR VETERANS WHO ARE AUTHORS HERE TODAY PARTICIPATING, BUT I WOULD LIKE US FIRST OF ALL TO STAND AND SAY THANK YOU TO THEM....
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| 01:20:13 |
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SACRIFICED AND PLEASE JOIN US AT THE TABLE THERE AND RAISE ANY QUESTION, MAKE ANY STATEMENT THAT HE WOULD LIKE BEFORE YOU LEAVE. THEN WE WILL MOVE TO...
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| 01:21:18 |
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SO SUPPORTIVE OF US AND RECOGNIZE THAT H.R. 508 ACTUALLY OUTLINES A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT. BRING ALL OCCUPYING FORCES OUT OF IRAQ IMMEDIATELY....
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| 01:24:10 |
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WE HAVE SOME OTHER VETERANS OVER ON THIS END. WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A STATEMENT OR DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? >> I WANT TO SAY THAT IT IS GOOD BECAUSE...
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| 01:24:37 |
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SECRETS THAT WE ARE HOLDING SO CLOSELY TO US, WE WILL NEVER BE HEALED FROM ALL THE SCARS WE HAVE FROM OVERSEAS. THERE ARE A LOT OF HEARINGS WE NEED...
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| 01:25:25 |
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ON, ONCE THE PRESIDENT GOT US INVOLVED OF THIS -- IN HIS OCCUPATION OF ANOTHER COUNTRY, WE HAD A BOAT IN THE CONGRESS TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. SOME ANTI-WAR
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| 01:25:39 |
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FOLKS SAID WE CANNOT VOTE FOR THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE AGAINST THE WAR. AND WE ALL SAID, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MINDS? THESE TROOPS ARE OVER THERE DOING THEIR...
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| 01:26:50 |
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CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE WAR AND FOR THE PRESIDENT'S BECAUSE IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR AMERICANS TO BELIEVE THAT AMERICA -- THAT THEY HAVE BEEN MISLED...
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| 01:32:20 |
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CONGRESS, WHICH IS WHAT THIS IS DOING. I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING PROFOUND I CAN SAY ABOUT GETTING CONGRESS PEOPLE TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO THIS. I WAS...
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| 01:33:36 |
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THOSE. IT IS INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM THAT IN FACT IF THERE IS MONEY IN THE PIPELINE,
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| 01:33:43 |
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THE WITHDRAWAL OF AMERICAN FORCES FROM IRAQ IS COVERED. THE SECOND POINT IS FRONT END -- THE BEGINNING OF THIS WAR. THIS IS NOT JUST A WARM THAT IS A...
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| 01:35:14 |
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BEING AND TO MEASURE POLICY AGAINST WHAT HAPPENS TO THE HUMAN BEING. IF YOU PICK UP THE NEWSPAPER AND YOU IMAGINE THE LOSS OF U.S. SOLDIERS AND TO
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| 01:35:24 |
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IMAGINE THE LOSS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO 50 75, 125 IRAQI CIVILIANS ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY. INSTEAD OF THINKING OF VETERANS THAT COME HOME AND SUPPORT FOR...
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| 01:37:14 |
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SAID, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GAVE HIM CAPITAL AND HE INTENDED TO SPEND IT APPEARED WITH THE NEW CONGRESS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THE NEW CONGRESS...
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| 01:39:18 |
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QUESTION BECAUSE EARLIER I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT A COMPANY CALLED RESEARCH TRIANGLE INTERNATIONAL WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT CONTRACTORS. THE U.S....
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| 01:39:37 |
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HIRED A COMPANY CALLED RTI TO SET UP THE GOVERNMENT. THEIR SLOGAN IS, SELECTIONS, NOT ELECTIONS. THEY WOULD GO TO EVERY SINGLE TOWN AND CITY IN IRAQ...
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| 01:42:59 |
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EXTENDING AND GETTING SOLDIERS WHO HAVE SERVED TOURS TO SERVE ANOTHER TOWARD. WHAT CAN WE DO -- WHAT CAN WE SAY TO HELP GIVE OUR MEMBERS THE STRENGTH...
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| 01:43:38 |
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POINT THAT FOCUSES ON NEWS FOR THE MILITARY AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY. MY EXPERIENCE IS IRAQ IS NOT JUST A COUNTRY ANYMORE. THAT IS AN IMPORTANT...
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| 01:45:48 |
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THE IDEA THAT A NON-BINDING RESOLUTION IS THE BEST THAT THIS CONGRESS CAN MUSTER
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| 01:45:53 |
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TODAY LEAVES MANY OF US DISAPPOINTED. THE DEATHS ARE BINDING. [APPLAUSE] NO AMOUNT OF MONEY OR TRAINING OR NEW STRATEGIES FOR NEW PLANTS FOR VICTORY...
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| 01:48:02 |
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HE DID NOT LISTEN. I THINK WE CAN
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| 01:48:06 |
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ALL KNOWLEDGE THAT THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE GROUND, WE ARE IN A HELLUVA MESS OVER THERE. I THINK WE NEED TO THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT HOW WE DO...
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| 01:50:11 |
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AND BEING ON THE FRONT LINE AND THE OTHERS WERE REFERRED TO AS KIND OF BEING SUPPORTIVE. NOT ONLY HAVE YOU HELPED US TO UNDERSTAND AND THINK ABOUT IT...
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| 01:51:01 |
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COME HOME. I HAVE SAT AT A TABLE WITH WOMEN VETERANS AND I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. YOU THINK YOUR FATHER, BROTHER, GRANDFATHER AS VETERANS....
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| 01:51:39 |
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CONGRESS DOES HAVE ITS OWN FOREIGN
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| 01:51:42 |
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POLICY POWERS, NOT JUST THE POWER OF THE PURSE, BUT THE POWER OF OVERSIGHT. IRONICALLY, IN VIETNAM THE U.S. ARMY WAS SAVED -- WAS SENT IN TO SAVE THE...
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| 01:52:37 |
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MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE HERE TO SERVE OUR INTERESTS AND WE HAVE MADE OUR INTERESTS VERY CLEAR. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WANTS THE WAR TO END. THE IRAQI PUBLIC...
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| 01:54:41 |
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SOLDIERS. . [APPLAUSE] >>
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| 01:54:48 |
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| 01:54:51 |
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| 01:54:55 |
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ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU HELP US PRESERVE THE VERY ESSENCE OF WHO WE ARE, SAVE THE SOUL OF OUR COUNTRY. [APPLAUSE] >>
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| 01:56:45 |
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YOU ASKED IN YOUR QUESTION WHAT WE COULD SAY FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO ACT, AND IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, THEN LISTENING TO ONE OF THE SOLDIERS SPEAKING...
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| 01:57:14 |
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TO BE OVER. LISTEN TO THE TROOPS AND BRING THEM HOME. IT COULDN'T BE SUMMED UP BETTER THAN 1971 WHEN JOHN KERRY SAT IN FRONT OF THE SENATE FOREIGN...
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| 01:58:12 |
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TO BE EXTRAORDINARY. AS I SIT HERE, AND I LOOK AT YOU, AND I THINK ABOUT THE TRADITIONAL HEARINGS THAT WE OLD SCOMPN EVEN SOME THAT WILL COME ABOUT...
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| 01:59:20 |
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DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE? I WANT TO TELL YOU AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO ME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME, I'M A PART...
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