Roland Burris: “I have been given great flexibility by the President and the Secretary of Defense in determining the composition of the…”

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.

We have to stop putting everything out in the--I am sorry.

Thanks to the same old political games.

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?