03/09/2009
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"As we drawdown, our goal is to leave behind an Iraq that is stable."
"So moved."
"These efforts have made it possible for DOD to absorb lower projected growth in the defense budget without, as Chairman McKeon warned last month, 'leav[ing] our military less capable and less able to ..."
"I think it is also obvious that the Iraqi military does not have a lot of the technological capability that they need to combat this kind of insurgency that is still out there."