09/12/2012
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"we can lose, people will die, and people will be injured?"
"When a brigade combat team, or BCT--which is the essential building block of the Army's combat power--isn't ready, and the Army isn't ready to fight, but they go to fight, ... doesn't this mean that m..."
"the more we talk in this room about the effects of sequestration, the less we win, right?"
"the objectives in the 2002 resolution remain: protecting both United States and Iraqi minority groups as well as ending terrorism in Iraq."