While Crusader and Comanche were stumbling towards oblivion, Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki began a far more ambitious modernization initiative that was expected to definitively answer the need for greater agility.
When John Boehner and Eric Cantor presented last February to you some substantive job creation, our stimulus alternative, the attack machine began to marginalize Eric -- and we can all look at the articles -- as "Mr. No, " and there was this pretty dark story, ultimately, that wasn't productive and wasn't within this sort of framework that you're articulating today.