02/08/2012
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"Senator McCain in his opening comment cited that we were reducing 20 percent of the BCTs in the Army."
"I hope in your meetings with the President that you will urge him to sit down with us and see if there are ways that we can avoid the effects of this."
"wouldn't quickly cutting U.S. troop levels below 68,000 make it harder to clear and hold insurgent havens?"
"when the enemy thinks you're leaving, it's very unlikely in my study of history that they're ready to make an agreement"