I have a high regard for Admiral Fallon.

I have run out of time and I wish all of you gentlemen the best in your new positions.

I know the sacrifices that they've had to go through to help you reach the position that you're in.

I had a political position and an advisory position, but I was a part of an administration and I was identified with that administration.

I think it's a serious problem in a lot of different ways.

I would submit that somebody needs to go in to the big boss and close the door and talk about what this is doing to the United States military.

political considerations have to come in play.

when you have a uniformed military individual making political judgments and giving political advice to a political administration.

the question has been, how we recuperate, as a Nation, for what many of us believe was an enormous strategic blunder.

I personally cannot see any element of a strategy of a commitment that's been going on for more than 4 years that can justify doing this to the soldiers and the Army.

I am deeply troubled by the 15-month deployment requirements that have been put on the Army.

I would submit that if those other individuals were properly doing their job, this position wouldn't be necessary.