To the members of the United States Armed Services, past and present, thank you for your service.

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For the United States Armed Services, these events are not a distant memory.

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Opening Tuesday's Senate hearings, the Armed Services Committee chairman said the United States must come up with a timeline for ending its involvement in Iraq.

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To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan -- the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests, and the strategy that my administration will pursue to bring this war to a successful conclusion.

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Senator John Warner returns from a week-long excursion to Iraq in the company of inveterate defeatist and Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin to announce that the United States must begin withdrawing 5, 000 troops from Iraq by Christmas.

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Keith Dayton, the head of the Pentagon's Iraq Survey Group, are expected to tell the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that although the United States has not so far discovered a "smoking gun" in Iraq, it has growing evidence Iraq had an "active WMD program, " sources said.

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The United States Senate will shortly consider the FY1991 defense authorization bill, S. 2884, reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee on 20 July 1990.

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McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee and a leading advocate of last year's troop increase, said the United States is no longer "staring into the abyss of defeat" as a result.

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