09/29/2009
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"If we stand for anything as a country, then we would have an obligation to declare those sorts of acts of a magnitude that we would not recognize the validity of that government."
"So if Tiananmen occurred today with the Chinese Government rolling out tanks and killing hundreds, if not thousands, of its own people, that it would also fit the Panetta rule."
"I think if the administration had properly put the issue before the Congress, the likelihood is that it would have been supported."
"I got the same answer from Admiral Locklear, commander in chief of PACOM, during an open line telephone conversation on July 28."