I think you're going to be a superb Secretary of the Army and I certainly support you.

It is another political, public relations ploy, rather than a significant change in strategy.

Your appointment represents a devastating critique of the national security apparatus of this White House.

the cancer is militias, both Sunni and Shia.

I just fear that you're going to be placed in an impossible situation.

this strategy of a surge I think is probably compromised by the same factors.

the Shia militia are deliberately avoiding contact with us.

a military strategy alone without a functional Iraqi government and without the support of non-DOD agencies cannot effectively prevail in Iraq.

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

The question is, where are these translators coming from?

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.

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

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.

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

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

by accepting a lower design life for these new buildings in order to keep costs down, are we building a legacy of 'World War II wood' where entire bases of failing buildings will have to be torn down and replaced in 30 years?

Last week's agreement might be a first step on the path to a denuclearized Korean peninsula, but that is far from certain.

I, for one, feel ever so strongly, based on personal work with him over a period of several years, on his extensive biographical material, this officer is more than qualified to handle those positions.