John Kerry: “may I say respectfully, we will continue to be able to do that. Over the course of the next year, with over-the- horizon…”

“may I say respectfully, we will continue to be able to do that. Over the course of the next year, with over-the- horizon capacity and with our ability to move in an emergency, we are not going away. We have plenty of troops in Kuwait. We could have plenty of troops over the horizon. That is not going to fall apart. The problem is that the tasks that the Senator is referring to, each of them are civilian tasks. They are political tasks. You don't need 138,000 American troops as targets to complete those tasks when you have 400,000 Iraqis allegedly trained and equipped and prepared to defend their country. Let me ask the Senator: Did Iraq or did it not fight Iran for 10 years within the last 25 years?”