Major General Rubenstein, how do you track whether or not a soldier attains that care?

I think it's a cumulative effect of deployments that run from 12 months to 15 months.

I was very encouraged and excited after our meeting that we can contribute to what I think is an important dialog when it comes to the war on our Southern border.

I think the critical--it is the recognition that we see increasingly throughout the country that part of what fuels this violence in Mexico are the flows of weapons and money south.

I think it is a wise investment in these economic down times that we live in here at home.

As a matter of fact, to me it is a very disturbing event that could really send the wrong signal to the wrong people at the wrong time.

I would really encourage you to do that because there are a lot of teaching hospitals, university hospitals, private organizations that serve veterans, that if you combined the two funding pools you would have a better service for the…

You said something to me that was pretty intriguing, that you have been able to manage the health care costs of the veteran population significantly without the inflationary costs associated with Medicare.

I think we need to think in terms of long-term security interests and Iraq could become a very stable partner in the future.

I think we have the best system in the world and do not ever lose sight of that.

Would you feel that way about social security? Why should a social security recipient be entitled to paid representation and a veteran not?

I want to do what is responsible. I want outcomes. I park my ideology here.