03/17/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"We would take the finest military in the history of mankind and gut it, is that right?"
"Do you agree with me that training of the Afghan army will be a need that goes past 2014?"
"On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is it for Iraq to end well, become stable, and not be a satellite state of Iran?"
"Do you agree with me it would be in our national security interest to leave behind a military footprint that would have American air power available to the Afghan security forces and counterterrorism ..."