not really excited about a desk job. |
Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero. |
readiness level of their combat levels above 90 percent mission capable. |
Several of the commanders and people in Afghanistan have reviewed the tapes and they have come to different conclusions, ... The fact that one view has been widely reported, I acknowledge. Now, whether or not that is an accurate view is something that will be based not only on my viewing.. but discussion with other people who were present so that we can get the truth. |
Someone made a comment to me the other day that we've had amazingly few casualties. And I said, 'Well, I don't know how we can say that.' The perfect plan spends no treasure and has no casualties, |
That footprint appears to us on the operational side to be about what that footprint needs to look like, |
The past three years have been hard years, a time of hard decisions and tough choices, ... I have looked into his eyes and I have seen his character. I have seen courage and consistency ... the courage to stand up to terrorists and the consistency necessary to beat them. |
The prize we seek is another 200 plus years of freedom in this country. |
The question is do we fight them over there -- or do we fight them here, |
The sense of stability, while not having arrived yet in Afghanistan, is moving in the right direction. |
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. |
They have accomplished some wonderful things out there, |
They haven't lost their lives for Iraq. They lost their lives for us. |
They're doing great. That doesn't mean they like being in Iraq on back-to-back tours, though. |
they're well cared for. |