01/21/2009
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"I feel a personal responsibility to help protect our Nation from such violence."
"Simply put, among a range of difficult choices, this is the best way to protect our Nation now and in the future."
"If we allow them access to the very same safe havens they used before 2001, they will have a greater capacity to regroup and attack again."
"We have to bring the Afghan security forces into the fight."