Joe Manchin actually said...

"If I'm hearing you accurately, you're saying even with 2014, as we approach 2014 for the drawdown and leaving Afghanistan, it's going to be quite expensive for us to do it right."

"We think that Iraq's not in any better shape today than it was when we got there, and that we don't have any more influence or control, or maybe not as much or even less than what we had before, and I..."

"You can probably go and buy this off the shelf for the mission that you want it to be used for, correct?"

"If we continue along the current path of fiscal uncertainty we will be unable to avoid the consequences of a hollow army."