second, sign this paper, we ll bring them all home, i would do it without hesitation. but i also feel that what i did wasn t a waste. i m just saying that maybe it s time to get our guys home. the white house says that afghanistan is no longer an al qaeda sanctuary, and that it has a plan to stabilize the afghan government and bring the troops home. but at least afghanistan was linked to 9/11. the taliban did host osama bin laden. invading iraq, on the other hand, had nothing to do with 9/11. despite claim after claim by the white house that it did. the liberation of iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. we have removed an ally of al qaeda. and cut off a source of terrorist funding. for some of those hunting bin laden, like the cia s hank crumpton, now retired, iraq remains a head snap.
we have two sources, congre congressional sources saying that o that osama bin laden is dead. dead. one of one of those sources says the the u.s. has the body in afghan afghanistan and that he was shot shot in the head. now now that tells you that obviou obviously this was not a predato predator drone strike but this m this must have been an on the the ground operation. that that had a good enough locati location on him so that they co could risk putting u.s. troop troops or special operations forces forces or more likely cia op rattiv rattives on the ground to go after after bin laden. and and if this accous corre correct, that means they probabl probably went into pakistan and and took him out of pakistan back back to afghanistan. we ll we ll wait to see what the pakista pakistanies think of this. but i but i think the u.s. positi position would be to act first first and apologise later for for having violated pakist pakistani sovereignty. mit mitchell: david, i posed t
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pull back to be peacetime places and wartime places. let s not worry about what province is what in iraq and whether 2003 versus 2007. but say it is wartime places and peacetime places. i want to put it this way. if we is the commission were to recommend that this kind of activity, where are you moving, not where you re standing stock still, in a high threat area was a closely associated activity, how would you react to that? would you say, you re wrong, commission? or would you say, that is cool. let me put that question to each of you. it is a better question than mine. my response would be the same as it was in my opening oral statement. i said that there would be a policy decision, and if a contractor is going to move forward with that policy decision, then we stand ready to do that. you said you would be good with it. ms. rogers. which is why clarity is so important in this issue. we will abide by what the government decides. good. mr. balderas. absolutely. e
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