So if you could improve the economy and have jobs available to people other than being in the IED business, hopefully that over time would help.

I think we need to continue to, certainly, make a point of that in every forum that we have...

This is our last best chance to get this right.

I believe that is all we have. The reason we are not sending 31,500 is we just cannot get them.

So, it's your belief that Iran is trying to, basically, drive us out of Iraq so they would, I guess, be a winner, if we left?

Could I go to Fallujah tomorrow? Could I go downtown to Fallujah tomorrow as a Senator?

This is the last best chance and the question is, the last hand to be played, should you play it?

General Petraeus said that a resolution passed by Congress disapproving of the mission that he's about to embark on, in his opinion, would be detrimental to morale.

No matter how well-intentioned, a resolution being opposed to this new strategy is a vote of no confidence in you.

If the person down the street who was caught putting an IED in the ground to kill Iraqi troops and American troops, if they went to jail for 30 years or got executed that might deter IEDs.

If you think it is Vietnam, if you really believe we are in Vietnam, you should cut off funding.

IEDs, that is the biggest threat to our troops. 70 percent of our casualties are from IEDs, is that correct?

Can you have a functioning democracy where the capital itself is not secure?

The point I am trying to make is it is clear to me that we have never had the force levels to be claiming we have been fighting a counterinsurgency.

From the Iranian point of view, do you consider, based on what you know now, that the Iranian involvement in Iraq is counterproductive to developing a democracy in Iraq?

If he said he needed more, you would support him?

Wars are about winning and losing.

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