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06-12-2005, 10:09 AM
Saturday, June 11, 2005
TAMPA, Fla. — Vice President Dick Cheney (search) lauded and thanked international special operations soldiers (search) for helping fight terrorism but warned them that their work is far from over.
"We have a long war ahead of us, and our enemies are waiting for us to let our guard down," Cheney said, speaking Friday to more than 300 people at the closing of the International Special Operations Forces Week (search) conference. "But we will not relent in this effort because we have the clearest possible understanding of what is at stake."
Cheney also visited MacDill Air Force Base for a medals ceremony at the U.S. Special Operations Command, which oversees the nation's elite military units, including the Navy's SEALs, the Air Force's Special Operations Command and the Army's Rangers and Green Berets.
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Cheney said U.S. Special Operations soldiers — "silent professionals" he called them — were "the first boots on the ground" when the war on terror began in Afghanistan nearly four years ago and played a key role in bringing down Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
"At every stage of this conflict, we have looked to the Special Operations forces to carry out the most perilous, the most technical, the most time-sensitive and least visible missions," he said.
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TAMPA, Fla. — Vice President Dick Cheney (search) lauded and thanked international special operations soldiers (search) for helping fight terrorism but warned them that their work is far from over.
"We have a long war ahead of us, and our enemies are waiting for us to let our guard down," Cheney said, speaking Friday to more than 300 people at the closing of the International Special Operations Forces Week (search) conference. "But we will not relent in this effort because we have the clearest possible understanding of what is at stake."
Cheney also visited MacDill Air Force Base for a medals ceremony at the U.S. Special Operations Command, which oversees the nation's elite military units, including the Navy's SEALs, the Air Force's Special Operations Command and the Army's Rangers and Green Berets.
-snip-
Cheney said U.S. Special Operations soldiers — "silent professionals" he called them — were "the first boots on the ground" when the war on terror began in Afghanistan nearly four years ago and played a key role in bringing down Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
"At every stage of this conflict, we have looked to the Special Operations forces to carry out the most perilous, the most technical, the most time-sensitive and least visible missions," he said.
Continued at
FOX (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159256,00.html)