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The Bush Administration Must Understand That Each American Has A Right To Question Our Policies In Iraq And Elsewhere, And Should Not Be Demonized Or Condemned For Disagreeing With Them. Suggesting That To Challenge And Criticize Policy Is Undermining And Hurting Our Troops Is Not Democratic, Nor What This Country Has Stood For Over 200 Years.

I'm The First Secretary Of Defense That's Had To Deal With Sequestration. I've Prepared Two Budgets That Deal With Sequestration. And You Bring The Chiefs Together, The Leadership Of This Enterprise Together, To Work Through, How Do We Then Take These Cuts? Where Do We Apply Those Cuts? Readiness Is The First Thing That Suffers.

I Am Fully Supportive Of 'open Service' And Committed To Lgbt Military Families.

Closing Guantanamo Bay Is Not A Military Solution. The Closing Of That Prison, Which I Support, I Supported It When I Was In The Senate, Requires More Than Just A Military Dimension.

Things Aren't Getting Better; They're Getting Worse. The White House Is Completely Disconnected From Reality. It's Like They're Just Making It Up As They Go Along. The Reality Is That We're Losing In Iraq.