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From Senators grill Defense official about Iraq price tag (USAToday on Yahoo, 10 Sep 2003)

"Congress is not an ATM," Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., told Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as he appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. "We have to be able to explain this huge, enormous bill to the American people."

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Wolfowitz said progress was being made in Iraq. He quoted from an unclassified CIA report that said that two years after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaeda "is at growing risk of breaking apart, as our blows against the group create a level of disarray and confusion throughout the organization that we have not seen since the collapse of the Taliban in late 2001."

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Wolfowitz held up several passports taken from killed or captured fighters in Iraq, which indicated that they were foreigners who came to Iraq to resist the U.S. invasion. But Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., noted that the dates of entry were after the start of the war.

posted by Quiddity at 9/12/2003 08:14:00 PM