Roland Burris: “I believe my fellow sailors appreciated my honesty.”

Because those packages were headed to synagogues allegedly in Chicago.

In July 2011 we believe--I am comfortable it is his intent we start to reduce the overall number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

So you could then withdraw one battalion or a squadron can go home and say, 'well, now we've started our withdrawal,' and then we halt it to see because we don't know what the conditions are?

But how do you reconcile that with, we will begin to assess it?