Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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That will bring our total of stealth fighters up to 24 in the theater, and our total number of aircraft up to about 220.
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My expectation is that based on the amount of chemical weapons in the pit and then what we've been told about wind patterns on that day and the disposition of forces ... there could be a very large number of troops included in a possible cloud area.
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There are no precise figures right now and the reason is that the number of troops we'll have to commit for a peace implementation force will depend on what type of peace agreement we are able to win, if we win a peace agreement, if we succeed.
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I just don't think we know at this stage, but we have to think in terms of big numbers -- bigger than 15,000 certainly.
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These tankers will immediately help increase the tempo of air operations, allow us to keep planes on station for longer periods of time and increase the number of the hours of the day in which we're actually flying over or near Yugoslavia and Kosovo.
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We're doing all that. We think it's good that Governor Bush wants to continue these programs.
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It would be an absolute victory for terrorists ... if we stopped doing our job in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world,
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These soldiers from the First Infantry Division first went to Macedonia to participate in a United Nations mission called UNPREDP, the U.N. Preventative Deployment, which was protecting Macedonia.
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These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.
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The U.N. is sending a team that's supposed to arrive tomorrow (Wednesday), to evaluate the situation and then return to New York, I believe, on Friday to report their findings. And depending on what they report, then the U.N. will decide what to do next.
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These are the forces that are being used to attack the Kosovar Albanians in Kosovo, and we will continue to focus on those targets.
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There will likely to be a Reserve call-up. The details aren't ready to be announced at this stage.
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These are advisories that highlight, one, the State Department's warning: and two, other information that's been collected,
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Enterprising generals and admirals will always find ways -- very good ways -- to spend more money.