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The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.

Does the administration have any plans for attacks against Syria, either because of the assassination in Lebanon or for its supposed hand in the Iraqi insurgency?

I cannot see how under the doctrine of preemptive strike that any President can make this decision by himself.

Will these funds be sufficient to address the complaints that we have heard, and that you heard also, Mr. Secretary, when you were visiting there, that our troops are scrounging for armor in trash dumps?