07/29/2009
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"The ideologues have used religion to fuel their belief system and somehow we are unwilling to confront it."
"I thought the President made not only a correct, but a courageous decision in 2009 in deciding to raise the number of our forces in Afghanistan by 30,000 plus."
"All of us are haunted by the phrase 'hollow Army'. We don't want to go through that again."
"the enemy--I am paraphrasing, of course, here--is not just al-Qaeda, they said; and it is certainly not the religion of Islam. It is a politicized ideology, a corruption of the religion, which is viol..."