08/23/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"if there's not engaged American leadership, serious leadership, that people believe that we're in there and committed to the strategy, we're not going to be able to do any of these things."
"I do not understand why in the world you wouldn't want, as General Jack Keane, the architect of the surge, a small component of American forces with an international force."
"I have never seen a hearing that is as divorced from the reality of every outside expert and what you are saying."
"Thank you. How long do you think it'll be before we retake Mosul or Raqqa?"