the draft is the only option that I think that we would have if that's the policy we continue down
The President's stated goal is to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and prevent their return to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There are people on this committee, and in the Senate, who have argued that the United States should remain in Iraq in the same sense that i...
There were concerns that I shared and wrote about before the invasion, that the invasion of Iraq would create the temptation or the possibil...
No one should interpret my comments today as a lack of support for Iraq and the continued U.S. involvement there.
We cannot afford to let the gains we have sacrificed so much for slip away.
We cannot afford to let the gains our troops have sacrificed so much for in Iraq slip away before they are cemented.
Make no mistake, after sacrificing hundreds of billions of American taxpayers' dollars and nearly 4,500 American lives, the United States ha...
We were worried, and were saying so at the time, that this endeavor would harm the country's economy, that it would blow the top off of the ...
I have real concerns about whether the proposed civilian-led mission will take the lead once our troops are gone and is sufficient to suppor...
Their ability to do what we saw them do in the past is somewhat diminished.
General Austin, you have said that internal security in Iraq is the best it's been in years...
We seek a country that is sovereign, stable and self-reliant, with a government that is just, representative and accountable.
If we are no longer there they will turn their focus on the Government of Iraq.
Does it not make a little bit of----
Basically, those of us who lived through the 1974 oil embargo and saw what it had done and how it crippled the Nation.
Basically we get, as a country and our general fund, no return on the investment we're making.
Clearly this did not occur, with the United States spending billions in Iraq for reconstruction.
