Roland Burris: “'Twas was the night before Christmas, and, all through the Senate, the right held up our health care bill, no matter…”

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

Let us not abandon those men and women.

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?

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.