We're putting a total of almost 15 billion dollars of US money into the Iraqi security forces. Obviously we have an obligation to the US taxpayer to ensure that that money is correctly used.

This is the year that we are going to try to sustain the accomplishments on the political, economic and security tracks.

The political process has made immense progress, Iraqi security forces are making a powerful difference, and the Iraqi population strongly rejects the insurgency and participates in the political process.

We are going to need some serious money for us to implement a really good plan for us to be prepared.

This is costing us money, and the money to pay for this war is coming out of our Social Security surplus, so this is a big deal. This is not just a little sidelight that we're involved with today in this country, ... Early Edition.

This is a good budget that will allow us to have the money we need to fix social Security for over three generations,