44,000 jobs in our state depend upon tourism. It brings in over $4 billion a year. That's huge for us.
This year has unfortunately shattered almost every weather record imaginable in the United States.
U.S. troops should leave because the Iraqis want us to leave.
The authors of that agreement always intended for it to be renegotiated at a later date to allow some U.S. forces to remain in Iraq.
This new chapter in U.S.-Iraqi relations after December is not an abandonment of Iraq.
We are completing the drawdown of our forces by the end of this year.
Our forces should withdraw from Iraq, and the President has made the right call in abiding by the agreement signed by his predecessor.
Our military withdrawal, as agreed to in the 2008 Security Agreement, sends a clear message to the Iraqi people and the Arab world that the ...
The withdrawal of U.S. forces with Iraqis in charge of their own security and violence at record lows was unimaginable 4 years ago.
The aim should be setting in place--over the next year--a strong and enduring foundation for normalized ties under the SFA.
it is nonetheless good domestic politics.
Iraq is governing itself. It is a sovereign nation. It is an emerging source of stability in a vital part of the world.
This fulfills the pledge made by President Bush, as well as President Obama.
I continue to believe that this decision represents a failure of leadership, both Iraqi and American, that it was a sad case of political ex...
While my position on the withdrawal of U.S. military forces is not driven by domestic politics, it is nonetheless good domestic politics.
U.S. troops should leave because they are the wrong instrument for the political problems that the Iraqis now face.
First, and most importantly, we should leave because we said we would.
It is time to complete the transition of responsibility for Iraq's security now to the Iraq Government.
