• I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009. They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.

    Colin Powell: I'll tell you what they're all going to face, whichever one of them becomes president on January 21st of 2009.  They will face a military force - a United States military force that cannot sustain - continually sustain 140,000 people deployed in Iraq and the 20-odd or 25,000 people we have deployed in Afghanistan and our other deployments.
    "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. APril 13, 2008.