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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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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