04/17/2018
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"President Bush indicated that as troop levels in Iraq decreased, many of those forces would be redeployed to Afghanistan."
"I expect we will all hear President Obama himself lay out his priorities for NATO at the 60th Anniversary Summit in April."
"I believe that the administration must consider the defense industrial base, such as the 95,000 (direct and indirect) jobs associated with the F-22 program."
"The situation in Pakistan is extremely worrisome, not only because Taliban fighters are using Pakistani bases to attack our soldiers in Afghanistan."