"Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was……" — Bob Graham
"Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away."
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28 Quotes by Bob Graham
Bob Graham has 28 quotes on this site.
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We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for…
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I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
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I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.
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The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of…
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I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation…
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We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are.…
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There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for…
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A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been…
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We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.
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We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
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During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed…
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In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has…
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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