05/05/2009
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"The security environment in Afghanistan from my point of view will prevent any civilian success until we change the security environment."
"I support what the President's doing. I want the American public to know that this has been a NATO operation all along."
"So they're not held in high regard, they don't have an air force, they don't have any armor, but they're winning."
"The balance that we're trying to achieve is not to put everybody in Afghanistan in jail because that's counterproductive, but to make sure that the really bad ones don't come back after 96 hours."