03/03/2009
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"It was too painful politically either to force them to cut the procurement quantity or to budget a high funding number."
"What we need, I think, is a kind of persistent study of these problems."
"I want to be on record as saying that the soldiers themselves, many of them have fought hard in the western regions of Pakistan."
"I need to, as far as this one vote is concerned, to believe that those goals not only are at the top, but have sufficiently permeated the down-below elements of the Pakistani Government and military s..."