This is a way for McChrystal's voice - missing so far from the debate - to be heard loud and clear, making the case for counter-insurgency tactics and more troops to back them up.

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And where folks are doing that, we intend to be very loud and very clear.

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He wanted to be understood, loud and clear.

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When CEOs own every training initiative and every effort to ferret out information, the message of total commitment is heard loud and clear where it needs to be heard the most.

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And there was one message I heard loud and clear on the doorstep: we want things to be different.

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With the six-party talks in tatters and faced with such a highly explosive situation in Northeast Asia, we the people in this region need to make it loud and clear that the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula will not be tolerated, and that we need peace and development rather than war and confrontation.

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That message came across loud and clear in the conference hall - he will now be waiting to see if the voters have also accepted it.

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