03/24/2009
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"It seems to me that al Qaeda in Iraq is on the rise and their political process is frozen."
"I hope we realize that this is the place we were attacked from, that al Qaeda still exists in that region."
"I just do not want to destroy the military in the process."
"So basically my view is we never honored the modernization commitment in terms of funding, and along comes sequestration."