Victoria Clarke
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"Victoria "Torie" Clarke" is an United States/American communications consultant who has served in several private sector positions and in three Republican Party (United States)/Republican President of the United States/presidential administrations, most notably as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld.

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I'd like to express again the department's condolences to the families and friends of the journalists who have been killed in this war. They have been doing very, very important work, and we're saddened by their deaths.

They did the best job they could. Where they could not understand words, phrases, sentences, they left it out or they put 'unintelligible' or they put 'phonetic.' Now the tape is what it is. The translation is what it is.

Some of the critics are seeing a connection where none is intended. People are perfectly within their rights to oppose the policy of war, but this is about supporting the troops.

Who knows who's in charge.

I think over the long haul public support is absolutely critical to the success of military operations. To get and keep that kind of support people need a comprehensive view of what the military is doing: the good stuff, the bad stuff, and the in-between stuff.

Any organization that can pull off what they pulled off on September 11, you think about the organization and the planning and the resources that went into that, clearly, they have some organizational capabilities that aren't going to go away over night.

She's in good spirits and being treated for injuries.

It was a terrorist target, and we hit what we intended to hit.

As much as we are making good progress -- and we are -- the toughest fighting could lie ahead. The likelihood that they might use chemical weapons is in front of us now. We are not underestimating how tough it could be going forward.