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Tools in order to safeguard security interests. decreasing a defense budget right now is not the way to be doing it. we don't even have a natural security or military strategy that has been done in the last three to four years. therefore, we don't have a baseline by which we can even determine what our true force structure should be and how we should be exercising it. >> i think most of us would look at the overall picture of the defense budget and say there's got to be waste, fraud, duplication. what is it strategic value of making cuts and if we make some, where should they be made and where...

Wanted 20,000 and couldn't negotiate that with the government in iraq. what is your take on this? >> i think vice president biden's quote made it clear that the administration was not interested in having 10, 20,000 troops there. that's a decision they made. others included myself would have made a different decision. but we have to look going forward. i think it is good they are focusing on the strategic framework agreement for an ongoing relationship between iraq and the united states with political, economic and security dimensions. and i hope they are exploiting that agreement and laying o...