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Or that to build support for afghanistan but its not working. >> no, its not. i think what theyre trying to do is say, look, the president made two commitments going into the campaign just a year and a half, two years ago. and commit nnlt number one was pull all combat troops out of iraq and commitment number two was to begin to resource the afghan war. hes actually fulfilling right down to the month, the iraq part but the afghan part is proving very problematic for him. the debate he wanted to ...

And that including one of the largest percentage increases to the va budget in the past 30 years. we are going to cut this deficit that weve got and ive proposed a freeze on discretionary domestic spending, but what i have not frozen is the spending we need to keep our military strong, our country safe and our veterans security. so we are going to keep on making historic commitments to our veterans. [ applause ] for about 200,000 vietnam vets who may have been exposed to agent orange and who now...

Years. i proposed a freeze of discretionary spending but what i have not froze season the spending we need to keep our military strong, our country safe and our veterans secure. so we will keep making historic commitments to our veterans. for about 200,000 vietnam vets who now suffer from three chronic diseases, we are making it easier for you to get the health care and benefits you need. for our gulf war veterans we declare that nine infectious diseases are presumed to be

We are going to cut this deficit that weve got, and i have proposed a freeze on discretionary domestic spending. but what i have not frozen is the spending we need to keep our military strong, our country safe and our veterans secure. [applause] so were going to keep on making historic commitments to our veterans. [applause] for about 200,000 vietnam vets who may have been exposed to agent orange and who now suffer from three chronic diseases, were making it easier for you to get the health care...

Security and the national guard bureau certainly not characterizing this as a delay, but lawmakers in this state and in washington sure do. the national guard bureau by the way, based out of arlington virginia says that august 1st was never the date boots would actually hit the ground. instead it was a date they would begin ramping up their numbers. they say theyve always had 90 days to reach full deployment of some 1200 troops across southern border states and thats where that september, octobe...

Capped, bp is gonna pull out. thats absolutely not the case. we had a meeting today on it. i was talking to teams in new orleans and houston this is a long term commitment by bp. not only for the spill response cleaning up the beaches where it needs to be cleaned up, the marshes as well as restitutions for the impact it has had on individuals and businesses. we are going to do 10 years. we are committed to do half a billion dollars of science, measurement, working with the gulf of mexico, instit...

Capped, bp is gonna pull out. thats absolutely not the case. we had a meeting today on it. i was talking to teams in new orleans and houston this is a long term commitment by bp. not only for the spill response cleaning up the beaches where it needs to be cleaned up, the marshes as well as restitutions for the impact it has had on individuals and businesses. we are going to do 10 years. we are committed to do half a billion dollars of science, measurement, working with the gulf of mexico, instit...

Capped, bp is gonna pull out. thats absolutely not the case. we had a meeting today on it. i was talking to teams in new orleans and houston this is a long term commitment by bp. not only for the spill response cleaning up the beaches where it needs to be cleaned up, the marshes as well as restitutions for the impact it has had on individuals and businesses. we are going to do 10 years. we are committed to do half a billion dollars of science, measurement, working with the gulf of mexico, instit...

Simple as that. it is not seeking to try to do anything other than follow the law and i think of it as your tax-gone profit. our profits are down so tax payments will be lower. but we put aside this $20 billion in escrow account. we put additional liabilities off to the side so that we can meet our obligations. were selling off assets around the globe to be able to -- be sure we meet our commitments to the united states. i think were doing what a company should do here an we will meet our commit...

And we are back with richard haass, bret stephens, and george packer to discuss afghanistan and the united states. so for all these reasons, richard, it does strike me again, i come back to it, im not quite sure why, given your views, why you are opposed to what the administration is doing because this allows them to manage the situation, see whether or not some of georges fears come into place. you know, that way you can kind of draw down faster if you need to, draw down slower if you need to. ...