John McCain

You would agree it is a problem?

Do you have a good sense of how former detainees are making their way back into the battlefield?

The damage should not be understated and the Department has learned many lessons about how to prevent this from ever happening again.

That puts their lives in danger?

Yet isn't it true that in Wikileaks some individuals who were cooperating with us were identified?

In the face of an unacceptably high and increasing deficit, we must examine all aspects of defense spending.

Do we face the same kind of governance challenge in Afghanistan?

The main problems still being corruption and Pakistan?

Last year, in a contentious markup, this committee voted 15 to 12 to allow servicemembers, their dependents, and retirees to obtain privately paid abortions at military hospitals.

I hope you will do that as a very high priority.

If we don't sustain this effort then we have invested a lot of blood, lives, and material in an effort that could be lost.

I hope, Ambassador, you'll make some representations to the Iraqi Government concerning the situation in Camp Ashraf.

I'm also concerned... the Government of Iraq has already released a lot of individuals who had been detained by the U.S. military.

In the words of General Petraeus, 'We made them take a knee,' right?

As is well known, I'm deeply concerned about this issue of complete U.S. withdrawal.

Failure is not an option in Iraq and we must be prepared to bear the cost to ensure success

We disregard Iraq at great peril.

It would have been unthinkable even 2 years ago to say that we would reach a point which most Americans... would increasingly forget about Iraq.

The Iraqis are interested in having an air force, for obvious reasons.

Without the U.S. presence there, it would take a long time before Iraq would have the ability to replicate that capability?

Our bipartisanship is not devoid of passion when we occasionally disagree on an issue.

I'm very concerned about Al-Sadr, his activities, his followers, and his close ties with Iran, the Talaban, and others.

I hope that we can address this issue in a way that would reassure them of America's and Iraq's commitment to their security

We're going to find out whether the trial lawyers run this place or whether the American people, and affordable health care is reachable for them, because without medical malpractice reform it makes that issue, if not impossible, certainly…

I'm told that you have given a full waiver to three States; is that correct?