Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left), Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen (right), Navy, testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding President Barack Obama's announcement that he is sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, , on Dec. 2, 2009.

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