Word: doneness
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...completing the mission I immediately have to think about the people that we've lost here, and the friends that I've lost here, and what that means. These are some of the best people you could ever hope to meet, people who I know would have done absolutely incredible things. And I'll think about them every day for the rest of my life. In fact, I had one friend who was killed a month before he was supposed to go home to get married. How do you put a price tag on that level of sacrifice...
...little cultural training, very little understanding of what their mission was, very little understanding of how and why they should do what they did. And they were pushed into doing things that, if you had asked them back home, they never would have done, or never would have wanted to see. So they come back very haunted, sometimes broken...
...economy. The policies that this Administration has pursued has been disastrous for all sorts of reasons, and one of these is economics. But I do find it telling that this distant war is something that Americans are somehow just tuning out. And I think the Bush administration has done a good job - if a mendacious one - of convincing people that [the war in Iraq] is still somehow connected to the war on terror, which it has absolutely nothing to do with...
...York except being able to say anything bad about the government. Here I can say whatever I want, no one is listening. But there you cannot. I've seen it with my own eyes that people disappear for no reason. In Iraq, no matter what you would have done at that time, you could not make money that can get you a step further. You will always be getting enough to just...
...four others were given training in advanced explosives with both lectures and hands-on practice. The course was done in 45 days. At the end, a handler talked to each of them separately and gave them a phone number to call in Iraq. Ali was given $10,000 in cash, he said, with a handler telling him the money was meant to support his efforts...