04/27/2010
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"But, you mentioned the Chiefs, and Odierno and the other Chiefs have come and testified in this room before us that, even before these things erupted, it was not adequate."
"Now we face an extremist organization that is larger, more brutal, better networked, and better funded than al Qaeda ever was."
"I believe the President, under both domestic and international law, has the authority to conduct the type of limited military campaign that he outlined last week."
"It will not involve American combat troops fighting on the soil. American forces will not have a combat mission."