Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
china committed engagement
He remains, of course, steadfastly committed to engagement with China as a long-term policy.
aware decisions everybody future movement required sure type
He wanted to make sure that no decisions were made by default, and that everybody was aware of the type of planning, and potentially training, that would be required for a future movement of forces.
allowing brought delayed food helpful hopeful measures oil return
He delayed for a long while participating in the oil-for-food program, which has actually been one of the hopeful and helpful measures that the U.N. has brought to Iraq, allowing it to import more food in return for the oil it sells,
later plans postponed trip until
He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.
august future ground looked might months nato necessary october order planning point position reach september several type
He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,
buying embargo equipment large military rebuild united
He has not been able to rebuild his military, in part because of our containment, but also in large part because of the United Nations' embargo on Iraq, which has prevented him from buying the military equipment he would like to buy.
activities beyond defensive far gulf seem three
I can tell you that their activities and buildup in the Gulf seem to go far beyond their defensive need, particularly on those three little islands.
allowed comply geneva meet prisoners rules visit
This visit did not comply with the rules or conventions under international law, the Geneva Convention, in that they were not allowed to see these prisoners alone, they were escorted by representatives of the Yugoslav government. The rules say they should be allowed to meet with them alone.
bush continue good governor wants
We're doing all that. We think it's good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.
hits integrated parts successful systems test
(Even) if the interceptor hits the (mock warhead), it could still not be a successful integrated systems test because there could be other parts of the test that failed.
distances easier harder short strike
easier to move, harder to find, more lethal, able to strike long distances in short times.
avoid best clean collateral consequences damage employed might solve solved trained weapons
There is no such thing as clean combat. We have the best trained forces, but there is no way to avoid collateral damage or unintended consequences when weapons are employed to solve what might have been solved diplomatically.
believe meeting problem time
we don't believe that there'll be any problem with meeting the time lines.
ammunition army army-and-navy attack attacked central cleansing dump ethnic involved kosovo major unit
We did attack a Yugoslav army unit in central Kosovo that's been involved in some of the ethnic cleansing activities. We also attacked a major ammunition dump in Kosovo.