11/06/2012
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"That's the dumbest construct in the entire world, to try to find $600 billion in savings, is to put DOD at risk, destroy the finest military in the history of the world."
"But the best thing I think we could do as a Nation, Admiral Mullen, is to provide capacity to will."
"Al Qaeda is the biggest loser in Iraq; would you agree with that, Secretary Panetta?"
"But we have a national security interest still in Iraq, right? So it's in our national security interest to know what's going on inside that country."