Takes great efforts, makes great efforts to make sure human casualties are reduced or eliminated. Don't you think that that goes actually counter to what you just said? Would these children not still be alive if you had not eliminated all of these staff working within centcom? We didn't eliminate them. We made sure that those things that they normally accomplish are at the field level, which they are. And all of these processes are in place at every level. (03:55–04:02)
CLAIM
Implies that eliminating staff working within centcom contributed to the deaths of children.
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