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星期一， 2008年5月26日

國防部長羅伯特M。 門去年認為他會尋找方式結束 關塔那摩海灣 軍事監獄，有告訴參議院專有防禦小組委員會他的部門間努力給「停頓」被帶來了由什麼他稱「一個嚴肅的沒有在我碼問題」。

門認為有「大約美國準備送回到祖國的70個″被拘留者。 但那些政府「或者不會接納他們或我們有關國家政府將讓他們一次疏鬆我們返回他們」。

使那遠景更加真正是 美國. 軍事』一個人民在Mosul，伊拉克設置自殺炸彈，這個月被辨認當Abdallah Salih AlAjmi，科威特人在阿富汗被抓住， 2005年派遣到關塔那摩并且釋放在三年以後那裡的s公告。 AlAjmi，當他回來了在家，發布了。

「什麼您做與那不能降低70或80，或者什麼數字是，不可能是寬鬆讓，但不會被充電和不會被送得在家？」 門要求。

尋找那答復，他說他與議員談了話， 邁克爾B.檢察長。 Mukasey 并且其他布什政府官員。 「我未找到在一所監獄在他們的家鄉要這些恐怖分子安置的任何人」，他說。

結果，他說， 「是我們是陷進」與關塔那摩海灣。

門和 邁克爾・ Mullen海軍上將主席 聯合參謀長也談論財政2009年 防禦部門 預算在他們的出現上在小組委員會面前。

以回應一個問題從主席 丹尼爾K。 Inouye (D夏威夷)， Mullen承認「連續的逐步升級」 $180十億在費用聯合薪水，好處，并且醫療保健為所有志願活躍義務，并且儲備武力「不為這大小的軍事很好預示」。

「有我們在限制將擊中將，存在，迫使我們對更小的軍事或強迫我們從任何种現代化或節目我們為將來需要，否则削減操作的極限」， Mullen說。

Gates called the rising cost of health care “one area that not only concerns us but where we believe we have to get under control.” He said the Defense Department’s health-care costs went from $19.5 billion in 2001 to the projected $42.8 billion sought for next year. Within that figure, he said, are military retirees, who are eligible, along with family members, for Tricare medical and dental programs.

Gates said that by fiscal 2011, “65 percent of the people being served by [the Pentagon’s health-care] budget will be retirees.”

When it was begun in 1995, Tricare Prime had annual enrollment fees of $230 for a single retiree or $460 for a family. Many retirees are in good health and are often working in other jobs, and premiums have not increased since the program started.

Gates said there is a $1 billion shortage in the Pentagon’s proposed fiscal 2009 health-care budget that it hopes to fill with a small increase in premiums for younger retirees.

Veterans groups and others so far have succeeded in persuading Congress not to approve the price hike. Gates said a Tricare premium increase for retirees could help slow rising health costs “without impinging on those who are in the service today.”

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-S.D.) asked Gates why the United States will still be paying $2.5 billion to train and equip Iraqi security forces next year, when the Baghdad government will earn $70 billion from oil exports this year. Gates replied that U.S. support has dropped each year as the Iraqis have paid more. But he added that by paying something, the United States can continue to keep an eye on the progress of Iraqi security forces.

“We need to scale this gradually . . . so we can keep an oar in, in terms of the quality and in terms of making sure that the training is of the kind that we’d want,” he said.

He added that although the Pentagon continues to provide Iraq with U.S. weapons and equipment, it is gradually moving Iraq to buy those same arms from American suppliers.

National security and intelligence reporter Walter Pincus pores over the speeches, reports, transcripts and other documents that flood Washington and every week uncovers the fine print that rarely makes headlines — but should. If you have any items that fit the bill, please send them to fineprint@washpost.com.

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