05/19/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"The only reason they possibly could have come back is because there's been a vacuum created."
"In Iraq we're on offense? The Iraqi people, the Iraqi security forces?"
"The security environment in Afghanistan from my point of view will prevent any civilian success until we change the security environment."
"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."