05/10/2011
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"Well, in general, because if you are engaged in a Vietnam type military operation, which I was, you have certain support elements that are providing indirect assistance to the people who are putting b..."
"I am not going to sit here and let everybody throw the dart at the White House saying the President violated this and that when he was the first President to ever say I accept the constitutionality of..."
"when you have an operation that goes on for months, costs billions of dollars, where the United States is providing two-thirds of the troops even under the NATO fig leaf."
"I wouldn't want the record to show that I was in total agreement with your analogy comparing our situation in Korea, our long-term commitment to Korea, with what might take place in Afghanistan."