05/12/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"This is the last best chance America has to get it right in Afghanistan."
"But, I can't understand letting Afghanistan go back into the abyss again. That's my dilemma."
"It is sad. It would have been sad to have lost in Iraq. It would have been devastating."
"So in the next 18 months, to roll them back we're going to put combat power in that we've never had, right?"