Leon Panetta: “Today, thanks to innumerable sacrifices from all involved, Iraq is governing itself--as a sovereign nation, as an…”

But the facts speak for themselves.

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.

The answer is no, not at all. Not in 100 years. These plans that the Pentagon develops, we -- we develop these plans to deal with every potential crisis that's out there.