Congressman Mac Thornberry gets to the point at the April 8, 2008 House Armed Services Committee hearing on Iraq, "General, in your testimony, you talked about -- the gradual establishment of sustainable security in Iraq is vitally important to the citizens of the United States. And Ambassador, in your testimony, you said we have to be clear with ourselves about what failure would mean. The American people don't hear that sort of talk very much. What they hear is what happened today on the ground with this bombing or this suicide bomber, and that's if something happened on the ground. If it's relatively quiet, they don't get any news. And I think it's important for them to hear from each of you why Iraq is important, what we have at stake, not just what we're doing for them, but why it's important for us..."
