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“The fact is we said we'd proceed on commissions. Hicks is up. And we're going to proceed. And if we're asked not to proceed or ordered not to proceed (by a court), then we won't. That's the plan,”
Lawrence Di Rita
“General Casey could determine after the elections that, I want more, for whatever reason, ... and then he'll get more.”
“We're getting more intelligence that's allowing us to stop more of these things, find more of them. So we're learning from them (the insurgents) and the enemy is learning from us, and it's going to be that way for as long as there is an insurgency.”
“They're obviously quite capable of killing large numbers of noncombatants indiscriminately, and we're seeing a lot of that, too.”
“On behalf of these fine young men and women, we certainly regret any perception that they were told what to say. It is not the case.”
“For the next election (in December), it wouldn't surprise me to see it go right back up to 160,000 again.”
“That's the kind of exchange you want to have with a country that has not been that transparent.”
“The soldiers were advised as to the issues they should expect to discuss, and decided among themselves who would speak to each issue as it may arise,”
“That's not a good way to determine how good or bad things are going - by (counting) how many things are exploding.”
“There's a lot of people who know that that's an obvious question”
