"We needed more troops. We needed it very badly."
"We are not winning the war in Iraq; is that correct?"
"The dirty little secret is that we don't have enough troops. We need to enlarge the size of the Army and the Marine Corps."
"I have always said we needed more troops in Iraq."
"the status quo is not acceptable."
"Therefore, the status quo is not acceptable?"
"Senator John McCain has said that the Iraqi government needs to break the back of the Mehdi army and bring down Sadr."
"We'd love to see more troops there."
"I respect you enormously. I appreciate your service. I regret deeply that you seem to think that the status quo and the rate of progress we are making is acceptable. I think most Americans do not."
"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."
"We were elected to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private enterprise. We increased the size of government and the false hope that we could bribe the public into keepi..."
"The day after 9/11 we should have begun to increase significantly the size of the Army and Marine corps. But we did not."
"When Americans confront a catastrophe, either natural or manmade, their government across jurisdictions should be organized and ready to deliver bottled drinking water to dehydrated babies and rescue ..."
"But I would say roughly you need another 20,000 troops in Iraq."
