As far as you understand it, is Guantanamo Bay still off the table in terms of being used for that type of facility?

We will maintain the triad, that we will maintain the stockpile at the current levels set out in the START treaty.

We do need to take that very seriously.

We have spent $46 billion over the past decade developing weapon systems that ultimately were never fielded.

I believe that we need to take serious caution before the administration makes a commitment to further reductions below New START force levels.

I firmly believe that Guantanamo is a top rate facility having visited it and should be that facility.

Do you have an opinion whether there was any strategic, operational, or tactical advantages to the September withdrawal versus at the end of the fighting season?

I think it is important that we take a look at this.

I am deeply concerned about one particular aspect of it, and that is the plan to fully remove the surge troops during September 2012.

the most important thing in this plan is it provides flexibility now to General Allen to decide how he withdraws those forces, when he withdraws them.

25 percent of those that have been released from Guantanamo have gotten back in the fight against us.

I commit to work with me and Congress to support and learn from best practices for this important program.

I wanted to echo on the question that Senator Brown had asked you about the Guard and Reserve and the role of the Guard and Reserve.

I would hope that you would look at this as a very important security issue.

I would ask you to look carefully at, because it is one that demonstrates again why we need a detention facility that ensures the security of these individuals so that they don't just go back to other countries that will just release them…

People are very concerned. The 19 Senators that signed that letter, we're concerned that releasing him back to the Iraqis is like releasing him back into the theater.

If we fail to have the political courage in Congress to make the difficult decisions... do you think this will make us less safe as we look forward?

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