There are no circumstances--none--in which we should put our people unreasonably at risk, where they cannot take actions in order to protect themselves.
I still have a great number of concerns about the stability of the political environment in that country.
I will work hand in hand as a partner with the embassy to ensure that we don't just hand off tasks.
I hope we can count on having this Wartime Contracting Commission make another visit soon into Iraq and come out with an idea on the contrac...
It's clearly the most vital thing we have left to do in Iraq, is defining the nature of how all these components fit together.
The Marine Corps has always paid a heavy price, in every war, from World War I, particularly, forward.
It takes 200 years to develop a tradition, and 2 days to destroy one.
I think you've made that point clearly today.
A big part of my frustration during that period was the political process telling the military how to do its actual functions.
The statistics that we had at that time were that African Americans were about 13 percent of the age group, about 12 percent of the people i...
There can be nothing more important, in my view--and I think John McCain and I share this concern--than ensuring that, in this type of a pro...