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Its too premature to speak about his legacy. After all yesterday we began an audit of these 8 million votes according to the deal that secretary kerry brokered last week. It will be a complicated audit and i wouldnt be surprised having gone through something similar myself with the ambassador and it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree question that we are going to talk about today cannot president karzais legacy will also be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leaving...

President s and congress has followed, that this would lead to a paralysis of our ability to defend ourselves. All of the framers agreed about war and i dont think that is true either like bruce said. I would look at the constitutional text. I have a free copy someone gave me. I expect some place like the committee on the republic we have one. Article 1 says no state shall without the consent of congress engage in war unless actually invaded or in such eminent danger delay isnt allowed. That is the constitutional balance of powers that bruce thinks should apply between the president and congre...

So kind, being so civil. Thank you for staying very close to timing and i want to thank you. Lets give them another round of applause. [applause] [inaudible conversations] heres a look at the debate courtesy of Oklahoma State university. Moderator in light of recent natural disasters how did each of you plan on updating emergency plans for oklahomas Public School system . Fallin thats a great question. We certainly want to make sure that all facilities in the state of oklahoma but especially Public Schools are safe. I just recently this week received the nra endorsement which im very proud of....

Meant that he didnt have a military plan were immediately responding to this, then that is not a strategy. That is an operational plan. So either he didnt have a strategy or he doesnt understand what strategy it is. Either way, im troubled by the comments and it is yet to be explained and the strategy is not just a military action but how you employ diplomacy and your power of information and influence and economic power and it encompasses all of the elements of government in power and the building of coalitions and the forming of helping governance change social problems that might help you s...

And part of which was a reality. We also dealt very closely on the issues of detentions. This goes again to this issue of president karzai seeking to establish and to reinforce the sense that afghanistan was a sovereign country and to wrest from the United States and other countries the kinds of respect due to that country and due to its people, and as we negotiated a contentious mou for my turning over of several thousand afghan detainees to afghanistan, that process and that sense of sovereignty came home in a very real way for me. And then, unfortunately, when president karzai abrogated par...