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Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

I've been a soldier too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander in chief.

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.