As Congress considers our future course in Iraq, we remain committed on a bipartisan basis to providing our soldiers every resource they need to fight effectively and come home safely. But it's time to begin the orderly redeployment of our…

This money that has been allocated is still not reaching ordinary folks here in New Orleans and in Louisiana. And until it does, all the numbers and the meetings and the planning that's being done is inadequate.

If the president says our continued course of action is a slow failure, you have to wonder where the vice president is receiving his information.

I don't think he has a real realistic view of what's going on in Iraq.

It's a question about the policy of this country.

I doubt that. I really, honestly, don't believe that the enemy gets up each morning and looks at the news clips before they decide whether they're going to go build another IED on the roadside.

Delusional suggests that you are out of touch with reality.

Clearly, they're not in touch with one another about what's really going on in Iraq.

The alternative is what our generals have been calling for, for a long time, what Prime Minister al-Maliki is calling for, and what most Americans want: Start bringing American troops home.

What we can't do is continue the approach that does not ensure the sort of political solutions that are needed in Iraq.

I did not see the president charting out a new course that would persuade either myself or the American people that -- that we're going about this thing in the right way.

It's time for us to change that strategy.

I think it's important for us to have these conversations with him and see if we can work together.

We should start drawing down our troops, redeploying them to fight in Afghanistan and other places.

He brings electricity to this race. He brings an alternative to Senator Clinton.

There are only so many donors that can give the big kind of money that you need.

Are there any circumstances that you can articulate in which we would say to the Maliki government that enough is enough and we are no longer committing our troops?

Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions.