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On the recordMarch 22, 2004
You can hit their terrorist training camps over and over and over and expend millions of dollars in U.S. weapons against targets that are dirt and tents and accomplish next to nothing.

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Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld discusses the ineffectiveness of previous military actions against terrorist camps.

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