Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sánchezis a former United States Army lieutenant general who stood as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. Senate election in 2012 for the seat of retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison...
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At this point in time, there's no reported exchange of fire,
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I am fully committed to thorough and impartial investigations that examine the role, commissions and omissions of the entire chain of command, and that includes me.
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sophistication, especially in the improvised explosive devices that they are using, and we're working to learn from that and to be able to counter them.
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If it's actionable intelligence and we believe that there may be substance to that tip, we go ahead and conduct operations against, and that's just one of those cases,
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He was a tired man, ... Also, I think, a man resigned to his fate.
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Emotional Love: Playing on the love a detainee has for an individual or group.
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But this is exactly where we want to fight them. ...This will prevent the American people from having to go through their attacks back in the United States.
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The honor and value systems of our armed forces are solid and the bedrock of what makes us the best in the world, ... There has been no catastrophic failure, and America's armed forces will never compromise their honor.
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The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.
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In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.
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My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?
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We're fighting a low-intensity conflict that is multifaceted,
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We are taking the fight into the safe havens of the enemy in the heartland of the country, where we continue to face former regime loyalists, criminals and foreign terrorists,
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to free other people and to let them enjoy the freedoms that we have become accustomed to since the founding of our nation.