Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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Right now we're concentrating primarily on searching for and caring for survivors. But when that phase of the operation is over, obviously we'll have to concentrate on providing food and shelter.
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This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.
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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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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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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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Weeks have gone by with no coordination whatsoever, which has made it very difficult for the humanitarian relief organizations to get organized, to figure out exactly what they should be doing to maximum humanitarian advantage,
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Our spending now is a little less than $300 billion a year. It's.. as I say, there are always ways to spend more money, or to spend it faster. There are always demands to modernize.
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Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory.
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Remember, our goal is disarmament. We don't want to fuel the fighting and the arms race in Kosovo; we want to end it.
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Recruiting is on an upswing. In the last couple of months, the services have exceeded their recruiting goals.
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It is due to credible threat information on unspecified targets.
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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.
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It appears a bomb fell short of its target.
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Some of this involves cutting out clutter on the Internet and focusing Web sites so that they provide useful amounts of information without overwhelming users.