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In Iraq we're on offense? The Iraqi people, the Iraqi security forces?

The security environment in Afghanistan from my point of view will prevent any civilian success until we change the security environment.

So they're not held in high regard, they don't have an air force, they don't have any armor, but they're winning.

The balance that we're trying to achieve is not to put everybody in Afghanistan in jail because that's counterproductive, but to make sure that the really bad ones don't come back after 96 hours.

About 55 percent of the American people in polls said that they did not support us staying in Afghanistan.

Could you take a look at it and give me an opinion about that?

I hope our allies understand that the outcome in Afghanistan is important to them, just as it is to us.

the American people need to understand this is going to be difficult, it's going to be more expensive, more lives are going to be lost, but I hope we understand, as a Nation, the consequences of losing.

I think the cost of the Afghan Army at that level's going to be $3 or $4 billion, at the very minimum.

There is a difference between a warrior and a criminal.

I really believe that the Federal courts have a tremendous responsibility and role in answering the questions before that we're talking about now.

There's a high ground in every war, and there's physical high ground, and in this there's the moral high ground, which I think is essential to win this war.

The military justice system is humane, is transparent, I think it's the right forum.

I am crying out for our country to realize that if we capture somebody in this war on terror, no matter how vicious the enemy may be, it becomes about us, not them.

There should not be. No one should be held, in a domestic criminal environment, indefinitely without the right to a trial.

You either win or you lose, and I think everybody wants to win.

We could send a million troops and that will not restore legitimacy to the government; do you agree with that?