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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 29
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
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We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.
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Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.
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