04/28/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"My assessment is we would have a significant degradation of our counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan, were we to do that."
"Everything they have said they would do, they have done."
"Do you think AQAP [al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] wants to hit us? Very definitely."
"I want to withdraw from Afghanistan responsibly. I want lines of defenses over there so they don't come here."