08/23/2018
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"The fact is that every military leader recommended that we have residual forces at minimum of 10,000 and usually around 20,000."
"History will show, Secretary Panetta, that they were ready to negotiate in May and we would not give them a hard number."
"The fact is that we could have been given sovereign immunity, as we have in other countries, to keep our troops there."
"The fact is when Senator Lieberman, Senator Graham, and I were there, the Iraqis were ready to deal."