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3,742
How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veteran affairs and entitlement programs.
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3,746
The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel.
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3,751
It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.
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3,753
Some of that money ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations.
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3,763
There's no doubt it’s gonna affect our budgets.
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3,769
Well, I want to make sure we're not handing the health care system over to the federal government which is basically what would ultimately happen with Senator Obama's health care plan.
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3,773
We have to obviously cut spending.
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3,778
And spending restraint has got to be a vital part of that.
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3,783
I just want to make this point, Jim.
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3,786
So to stand here and after eight years and say that you're going to lead on controlling spending and, you know, balancing our tax cuts so that they help middle class families when over the last eight years that hasn't happened I think just is, you know, kind of hard to swallow.
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3,790
On a -- on the way that the Iraq War was conducted.
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3,791
I have a long record and the American people know me very well and that is independent and a maverick of the Senate and I'm happy to say that I've got a partner that's a good maverick along with me now.
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3,797
I think the lessons of Iraq are very clear that you cannot have a failed strategy that will then cause you to nearly lose a conflict.
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3,799
And then the war was very badly mishandled.
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3,802
And finally, we came up with a great general and a strategy that has succeeded.
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3,807
And I want to tell you that now that we will succeed and our troops will come home, and not in defeat, that we will see a stable ally in the region and a fledgling democracy.
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3,818
We hadn't caught bin Laden.
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3,828
But we have to use our military wisely.
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3,850
But that's Senate inside baseball.
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3,854
But understand, that was a tactic designed to contain the damage of the previous four years of mismanagement of this war.
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3,856
You talk about the surge.
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3,874
And you know, afterwards, we spent a lot of time with them.
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3,882
They just passed an electoral...
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3,888
That's what's happening in Iraq, and it wasn't a tactic.
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3,894
Jim, there are a whole bunch of things we have got to answer.
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3,897
I opposed funding a mission that had no timetable, and was open- ended, giving a blank check to George Bush.
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3,902
The question is, was this wise?
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3,904
We need more troops there.
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3,908
There is nobody who can pose a threat to us there.
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3,915
And right now, the commanders in Afghanistan, as well as Admiral Mullen, have acknowledged that we don't have enough troops to deal with Afghanistan because we still have more troops in Iraq than we did before the surge.
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3,920
That's what Admiral Mullen said.
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3,922
He did not say that.
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3,926
Now General Petraeus has praised the successes, but he said those successes are fragile and if we set a specific date for withdrawal -- and by the way, Senator Obama's original plan, they would have been out last spring before the surge ever had a chance to succeed.
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3,928
It didn't exceed beyond mine, because I know that that's a strategy that has worked and can succeed.
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3,943
Now, keep in mind that we have four times the number of troops in Iraq, where nobody had anything to do with 9/11 before we went in, where, in fact, there was no Al Qaida before we went in, but we have four times more troops there than we do in Afghanistan.
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3,944
And that is a strategic mistake, because every intelligence agency will acknowledge that Al Qaida is the greatest threat against the United States and that Secretary of Defense Gates acknowledged the central front -- that the place where we have to deal with these folks is going to be in Afghanistan and in Pakistan.
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3,945
So here's what we have to do comprehensively, though.
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3,950
Number three, we've got to deal with Pakistan, because Al Qaida and the Taliban have safe havens in Pakistan, across the border in the northwest regions, and although, you know, under George Bush, with the support of Senator McCain, we've been giving them $10 billion over the last seven years, they have not done what needs to be done to get rid of those safe havens.
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3,955
So we can't ignore those lessons of history.
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3,957
I'm not prepared at this time to cut off aid to Pakistan.
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3,958
So I'm not prepared to threaten it, as Senator Obama apparently wants to do, as he has said that he would announce military strikes into Pakistan.
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3,960
He said that he would launch military strikes into Pakistan.
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3,961
Now, you don't do that.
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3,967
I can see how tough that terrain is.
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3,972
And it's going to be tough.
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3,976
And the Pakistanis are going to have to understand that that bombing in the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad was a signal from the terrorists that they don't want that government to cooperate with us in combating the Taliban and jihadist elements.
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3,977
So we've got a lot of work to do in Afghanistan.
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3,981
And Pakistan is a very important element in this.
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3,982
And I know how to work with them.
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3,983
And I guarantee you I would not publicly state that I'm going to attack them.
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3,994
And we've got a choice.
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3,995
We could allow our troops to just be on the defensive and absorb those blows again and again and again, if Pakistan is unwilling to cooperate, or we have to start making some decisions.
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3,998
And as a consequence, we lost legitimacy in Pakistan.
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4,001
That's going to change when I'm president of the United States.
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4,003
Everybody who was around then, and had been there, and knew about it knew that it was a failed state.
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4,004
But let me tell you, you know, this business about bombing Iran and all that, let me tell you my record.
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4,008
And then we had Somalia -- then we had the first Gulf War.
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4,017
And I'll tell you, I had a town hall meeting in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and a woman stood up and she said, "Senator McCain, I want you to do me the honor of wearing a bracelet with my son's name on it."
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4,020
And I said, "I will -- I will wear his bracelet with honor."
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4,024
And they all say to me that we don't want defeat.
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4,025
I know what that’s like when an army is defeated.
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4,028
And it did and we will win this one and we won't come home in defeat and dishonor and probably have to go back if we fail.
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4,029
Jim, let me just make a point.
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4,030
I've got a bracelet, too, from Sergeant - from the mother of Sergeant Ryan David Jopeck (ph), given to me in green bay.
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4,031
She asked me, can you please make sure another mother is not going through what I'm going through.
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4,032
No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief.
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4,035
The question is for the next president, are we making good judgments about how to keep America safe precisely because sending our military into battle is such an enormous step.
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4,039
You don't muddle through the central front on terror and you don't muddle through going after bin Laden.
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4,041
I think that is something we have to take seriously.
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4,042
And when I'm president, I will.
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4,044
You might think that with that kind of concern that Senator Obama would have gone to Afghanistan, particularly given his responsibilities as a subcommittee chairman.
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4,045
By the way, when I'm subcommittee chairman, we take up the issues under my subcommittee.
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4,046
But the important thing is -- the important thing is I visited Afghanistan and I traveled to Waziristan and I traveled to these places and I know what our security requirements are.
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4,060
Now we cannot allow a second Holocaust.
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4,072
Senator Obama said that would be provocative.
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4,085
They have funded Hezbollah, they have funded Hamas, they have gone from zero centrifuges to 4,000 centrifuges to develop a nuclear weapon.
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4,105
Now, Senator Obama said, without preconditions.
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4,107
First of all, Ahmadinejad is not the most powerful person in Iran.
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4,109
But I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.
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4,110
And I'm glad that Senator McCain brought up the history, the bipartisan history of us engaging in direct diplomacy.
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4,111
Senator McCain mentioned Henry Kissinger, who's one of his advisers, who, along with five recent secretaries of state, just said that we should meet with Iran -- guess what -- without precondition.
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4,112
This is one of your own advisers.
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4,114
It doesn't mean that you invite them over for tea one day.
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4,116
There's a difference between preconditions and preparation.
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4,120
President Bush recently sent a senior ambassador, Bill Burns, to participate in talks with the Europeans around the issue of nuclear weapons.
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4,121
Again, it may not work, but if it doesn't work, then we have strengthened our ability to form alliances to impose the tough sanctions that Senator McCain just mentioned.
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4,124
We can't deal with them.
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4,130
And they sent nuclear secrets, potentially, to countries like Syria.
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4,132
And -- and I just -- so I just have to make this general point that the Bush administration, some of Senator McCain's own advisers all think this is important, and Senator McCain appears resistant.
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4,133
He even said the other day that he would not meet potentially with the prime minister of Spain, because he -- you know, he wasn't sure whether they were aligned with us.
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4,138
I'm not going to set the White House visitors schedule before I'm president of the United States.
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4,148
It isn't just naive; it's dangerous.
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4,149
And so we just have a fundamental difference of opinion.
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4,153
We don't know what the status of the dear leader's health is today, but we know this, that the North Koreans have broken every agreement that they've entered into.
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4,156
Nobody's been talking about that, and Senator McCain knows it.
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4,157
This is a mischaracterization of my position.
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4,160
And the notion that we would sit with Ahmadinejad and not say anything while he's spewing his nonsense and his vile comments is ridiculous.
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4,163
We sit down with Ahmadinejad, and he says, "We're going to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth," and we say, "No, you're not"?
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4,179
I'm using the same words that your advisers use.
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4,188
Their actions in Georgia were unacceptable.
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