American youth tend to have tattoos now. The demographic is changing. If a kid is in good shape and passes all the tests, do Americans really want us to say no to him because he's got tattoos? I don't think so.

I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.

If I were an Al Qaeda guy, I wouldn't go out for a pizza.

Not taking jailbirds has been our policy for decades.

The biggest thing is we want to express our condolences no matter what happened,

It's sensitive because we understand they're different soldiers.

Every army in the history of the world has always had some deserters, usually much greater than we have today, because once again every soldier who's joined the Army since 1973 is a volunteer, and the numbers are very small and they are almost completely for -- people desert almost completely for personal or financial reasons.

We try to rehabilitate most people, but if you have set fire to Chicago, we probably won't attempt to rehabilitate you.

We have met the active Army's monthly recruiting goals since June, and we expect to meet it for September, which sends us into fiscal year 2006 on a winning streak,

We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.