Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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This soldier got prompt visitation from the ICRC as well as prompt medical care. So we have yet to see any delivery on the Serb promise that they plan to abide by the terms of the Geneva Conventions,
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This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.
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This offer may be one sign he is rattled, but we are going to continue to rattle him until he makes an offer that meets our conditions, and he's far away from that right now.
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We think that the Operation Southern Watch and Northern Watch have been able to debilitate Saddam Hussein's air defenses quite a lot ... For one thing, we think that he's largely afraid to use his top of the line air defense systems, for fear of losing them to our patrolling airplanes.
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There have been no violations of the no-fly zone by the Iraqi forces for the last five days or so,
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Admiral Fry, or someone working with him, said, 'You know, if this thing suddenly veers off course and heads to Chicago, we'll have some really tough decisions to make,'
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They've done this with consummate skill and professionalism and success. I don't think there's a citizen who isn't proud of the way our military has performed in these operations and is performing every day
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The Yugoslavs thought that they could wipe out the Kosovo Liberation Army in five to seven days. They have not succeeded in doing that,
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Also, some of the Army assets going into Macedonia and Albania likely would come from the reserves. There are specialties such as civil affairs that only exist in the reserves.
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There were reports on Radio Free Europe that water hoses were used against women and children who were protesting the fact that their husbands or fathers, loved ones, were being killed in Kosovo,
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There is now a clear minimum flight ceiling of 2,000 feet,
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The reports did not provide enough specificity to allow any skipper or military commander to make a decision to change behavior based on these reports.
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There may be times when we have to rescue pilots and the less said the better for the safety of the pilots.
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This is what right now we see as the type of force that will be self-contained and be able to provide the engineering capability, the patrolling capability, the internal force protection security capability that's necessary.