Wars are about winning and losing.

I believe that is all we have. The reason we are not sending 31,500 is we just cannot get them.

So if you could improve the economy and have jobs available to people other than being in the IED business, hopefully that over time would help.

The public is going to break against us big time.

Senator Graham, this is not double down; this is all in.

So, we need to develop along three fronts: a better rule of law, a better economy, and a better security environment.

General Petraeus said that a resolution passed by Congress disapproving of the mission that he's about to embark on, in his opinion, would be detrimental to morale.

The point I am trying to make is it is clear to me that we have never had the force levels to be claiming we have been fighting a counterinsurgency.

You are going back for the third time or the fourth time? Third time?

From the Iranian point of view, do you consider, based on what you know now, that the Iranian involvement in Iraq is counterproductive to developing a democracy in Iraq?

One of the biggest nightmares of the dictatorship in Syria and the theocracy in Iran is to have a functioning democracy in Iraq. It threatens their regimes.

If he said he needed more, you would support him?