Al Sayed said when he saw the video, he told his friend to take it off the Internet because the act was so perverse.

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According to James Schlesinger, former defense secretary and energy secretary, the service chiefs were not specifically polled before-the-fact on the question of whether they would support such a treaty -- an example of the perverse effect of the Goldwater-Nicholls Act in downgrading the role of service chiefs.

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