So, we need to develop along three fronts: a better rule of law, a better economy, and a better security environment.

Senator Graham, this is not double down; this is all in.

The public is going to break against us big time.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think there is really no telling what could happen if Iraq fails.

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.

You are going back for the third time or the fourth time? Third time?

One of the biggest nightmares of the dictatorship in Syria and the theocracy in Iran is to have a functioning democracy in Iraq. It threatens their regimes.

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?