Obama has been accused by Republicans of dithering and this was the eighth meeting of the war cabinet.

共和党指责奥巴马过于举棋不定。 此次已是军事内阁的第八次会议了，然而白宫的回应仍旧是尚未找到最佳办法。

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The three party Leaders have agreed to serve, either in the War Cabinet or in high executive office.

这三个党的领导人已同意提供服务，无论是在战时内阁，或在高的行政办公室。

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Lincoln was surprised by the reaction. He thought his cabinet would gladly end the war... a war that was costing the government three million dollars a day and the lives of the nation's young men.

林肯对他的内阁成员们的反应感到很惊讶，他认为他的内阁应该很高兴看到内战的结束，…要知道，这场内战每天耗费三百万美元，还有大量的年轻的生命。

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Cabinet members began to arrive, while wild reports spread through the city: the Confederates had declared war again!

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War Secretary Stanton and the other members of the cabinet were violently opposed to it.

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The war was sold to his cabinet, to parliament and to the British people on the basis that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous man holding weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that could be unleashed within 45 minutes.

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But if I may say from my experience of government what a war cabinet is like.

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However, Mr Berlusconi - who was elected in 2001 - holds the record for leading the longest-serving post-war cabinet.

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On that same subject, David Cameron's suggestion that if he won power, he would bring opposition leaders into a war cabinet would strike many people as a very sensible one.

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