I don't think we have everything we need.

It's an obvious flaw, or an obvious shortcoming in this plan.

The new strategy sounds a lot like the old strategy to me.

In response to Senator McCain's question about what happens if we announce some type of withdrawal.

The other issue, General, that has come up, I was out last fall.

You mentioned ethnic cleansing.

General, that situation has existed before this surge. I find it hard to believe that you would give as your best advice to this committee that the differential, probably 40,000 troops in terms of doctrine, is going to be made up by…

I wish you success because the lives of a lot of young Americans are in your hands.

Even Prime Minister Maliki told me that some of these ministerial forces are worse than the insurgents.

We seem to be pushing quite close to that 6-month window.

That is likely to accelerate or decelerate, regardless of what we do?

We are presenting this strategy as a new forward with a new plan, and a key element as you indicate that you are not quite sure we have those forces in place or can generate those forces.

I agree with Senator Sessions. The Department of Defense, military officers, enlisted men and women, have been carrying the burden here without adequate support.

It's not what we're doing, it's what the American people are doing. They have listened for 3 years, and they have formed very strong conclusions.

The question is, where are these translators coming from?

We never get what we need on the nonkinetic side of the equation.

Well, we're clearly not winning. And we're in danger of losing in Iraq, unless we take dramatic action, unless the president takes dramatic action.

A third of our brigades in the United States are reporting non-deployable because of personnel and equipment shortages.