Exchange With Reporters Following the President's Hand Surgery
10/05/1989
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the progress made remains fragile and that further troop pullouts after the surge forces leave would have to wait.
This time we will have the force levels we need to hold the areas that have been cleared.
I want to tell the people of the Middle East that the practices that took place in that prison are abhorrent and they don't represent Americ...
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