10/11/1989
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"I don't believe he should resign."
"If I didn't believe we could succeed, I wouldn't be there. I wouldn't put those kids there."
"Many Iraqi units conducted their own anti-terrorist operations and controlled their own battle space."
"The United States will not abandon Iraq. We will not leave that country to the terrorists who attacked America and want to attack us again."