09/05/2011
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"Last month, the Commission issued its final--and I would say to me very disturbing--report because it says that at least $31 billion, and maybe as much as $60 billion, have been squandered in waste, f..."
"The Commission on Wartime Contracting was created by legislation sponsored by Senator Claire McCaskill and Senator Jim Webb to investigate our reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"There is no question that, although I think we knew it then, we can certainly look back and say now that we understand that on that day, we were drawn into a war which is increasingly global."
"In 4 days, we will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11 and mourn anew the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost that day."