Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
arms benefits increased military money pay
we have increased military pay and benefits and increased money for arms procurement and training.
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We have a worldwide mission to perform, and we are not going to stop performing that mission. We can never eliminate the risk, but we can take steps to reduce the risk.
allied central controls increased indicative military nerve pressure regime security system
indicative of increased allied pressure on the very center, the central nerve system of the regime that controls military and security forces.
applies convention geneva periods
By international law, the Geneva Convention applies to all periods of hostilities.
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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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It's a sort of a self-contained, quickly movable team that can go in to an emergency situation abroad, set up a communications, set up an operations center, do some of the initial investigative work.
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I think it is fair to say that things were in their expected position -- which was moved, ... They have been moving their military assets, including tanks and artillery -- and other things. Dispersion is a standard defensive tactic, and the Serbs are very good at dispersion.
material properly sold
Material that should have been demilitarized has not been properly demilitarized and is sold when it shouldn't have been.
disturbing extremely further looking obviously
These are obviously extremely disturbing and we're looking further at them.
unsaid
It's unsaid because that's not true. That's not the plan.
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.
china committed engagement
He remains, of course, steadfastly committed to engagement with China as a long-term policy.
cnn energetic facts hope mission people true understand
I hope that CNN is ... energetic in making this retraction and clarification so that people do understand what the true facts of this mission were.
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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.