Eventually have to start rolling them back. The next step would be roll them back, get them out of Iraq. But, David, you have to realize The 2007 surge, we had about 100,000 Sunnis that were working with us. We had about 100,000 Iraqi security forces, the Sunni Awakening. We had 160,000 American troops on the ground. probably somewhere between 35 and 40,000 involved in direct comb in the clear and hold strategy to defeat 6 to 8,000 members of Al Qaeda in Iraq. (06:44–07:07)
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