The truth is that this administration was committed to the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and they made it...
The criticism today... appears to be that it favors preservation and conservation over other use.
But while these and other Forest Service policies are not perfect, they are also not part of a vast conspiracy to lock u...
They were ready to make that agreement.
So in these times of fiscal austerity, we withdraw all our military troops and hire a whole bunch of contractors, who ei...
The fact is that the President was presented with options, either a declaration of sovereign immunity made by the govern...
The fact is that every military leader recommended that we have residual forces at minimum of 10,000 and usually around ...
The fact is that we could have been given sovereign immunity, as we have in other countries, to keep our troops there.
This is about our needs as well, Mr. Secretary.
So to say that the Iraqi Government did not want us when they did not know the numbers and missions that we wanted to ha...
The United States will maintain a long-term relationship with Iraq. We are committed to that.
We are not going anywhere, and we will continue to reassure our partners, deter aggressors, and counter those seeking to...
This is not about us. It is about what the Iraqis want to do and the decisions that they want to make.
Iraq's progress is now at greater risk than at any time since the dark days before the surge.
We have a solemn responsibility to stay committed to Iraq's success.
The departure of U.S. military forces from Iraq in the coming weeks, consistent with our legal obligations, can contribu...
In the view of every military expert that I know, we are now at greater risk than we were if we had had a residual force...
The fact is when Senator Lieberman, Senator Graham, and I were there, the Iraqis were ready to deal.
