What we have to do, I think, are practical things.
If you had been President, how would you have prevented where we have come to find ourselves?
The only people that have been able to persuade leadership in Iraq to be conciliatory... is the Americans.
Our policy should be to back the moderates in all those states.
I think we should support their ability to govern autonomously as much as possible.
I think it is a tragedy that with the rise of China stepping into the superpower shoes left by the Soviet Union, with the problems in the Uk...
We stopped the attack at midpoint. We stopped our operation.
I think very simply if you--once again, the 1st Iraqi Division was extremely effective in the end in Iraq.
This conflict has legs. It is an enduring conflict.
If you are not going to pony up and put skin in the game, then why do you get to even give us your requirements?
Don Young has been working the icebreaker issue for decades, literally. And it hasn't gone anywhere.