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Watch video of our great hero Some notable quotes: What I want our adversary to know is please work with our State Department. You really don’t want to work with me. That’s our message. America today is emerging from a period of strategic atrophy. To be out of Washington DC I am so happy I could cry. We have changed our tactics from attrition to annihilation. We surround the enemy and eliminate it.

WASHINGTON, April 22 - In 1969, Hillary Rodham, then a student, wound up on the pages of Life magazine after giving a defiant commencement speech at Wellesley College that reflected the antiwar sentiment and political turmoil of the era. "We're not in the positions yet of leadership and power, but we do have that indispensable task of criticizing and constructive protest,'' she said, taking aim at the featured commencement speaker, Senator Edward W. Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts who urged support for the Vietnam War in his address. Fairly or not, Hillary Rodham Clinton's image on defense has been largely...

Late last month, former Gov. Howard Dean was in Chicago, running for the Democratic nomination for president, and he harshly critiqued President George W. Bush's defense policy, and his handling of the Iraqi campaign, saying, “as they say in Texas, it is all hat, and no cattle." But documents obtained by Navy News & Undersea Technology from the archives of the office of former Gov. Dean, through Vermont’s Public Records Act (I V.S.A., 315-320), detail an interesting story of Dean's own dealings with the military, and his policy toward the use of Pentagon funds. Dean is now 20 points ahead...