We needed more troops. We need it very badly.
I've always said we needed more troops in Iraq and obviously most people agree with that now in retrospect.
Can we still win? Yes, I believe we can.
We have made a great many mistakes in this war. And history will hold us to account for them, just as the voters did last week.
Let's invite a genuine contest of ideas within our party and with the other party for conservationism, as Ronald Reagan told us, is not a na...
Common sense conservatives believe that the government that governs least governs best.
But I would say roughly you need another 20,000 troops in Iraq.
When Americans confront a catastrophe, either natural or manmade, their government across jurisdictions should be organized and ready to del...
The day after 9/11 we should have begun to increase significantly the size of the Army and Marine corps. But we did not.
I don't understand that tactic, General.
We were elected to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private enterprise. We increased the size of government ...
I think you can look back and say that more American troops would have been advisable in the earlier stages.
I am of course disappointed that basically you're advocating the status quo here today which I think the American people in the last electio...
I regret deeply that you seem to think that the status quo and the rate of progress that we are making is acceptable. I think that most Amer...
Basically, you're advocating the status quo here today, which I think the American people, in the last election, said, that is not an accept...
I have always said we needed more troops in Iraq.
I believe that there are a lot of things that we can do to salvage this, but they all require the presence of additional troops.
We have just one choice in Iraq, and that is to see our mission there through to victory.