Meanwhile, the State Department and the Pentagon continue to have their differences.

The Pentagon continues to pay the remaining $100 million of the agency's budget.

He said that the Pentagon would continue to administer about 5,000 doses a month, down from 17,000.

Nonetheless, the Pentagon continues to say that the policy is necessary to preserve "unit cohesion."

Yet the Pentagon continues to focus its energies on rushing missile defense into premature service.

Even after the war, the Pentagon continued to promote a "totally one-sided" air victory.

Whatever the total, the Pentagon would likely continue to insist that it is a bare, if inevitable, minimum.

And for months after, the Pentagon continued to insist that it had been a picture-perfect operation.

And then came the attack on the convoy, which the Pentagon continues to say was a legitimate target.

As the strikes continued for a 10th day, the Pentagon continued its military buildup in the region.