Leon Panetta actually said...

What I'm saying is that Maliki was the kind of leader that you had to constantly put pressure on to direct him in the right direction.

The president very clearly should have said you have crossed that red line, we're not going to allow that to happen.

I do think that if we had had a presence there, it might not have created the kind of vacuum that we saw develop in Iraq.

You got to basically go after people and make them understand what they have to do, and that means you create a war room, you go after votes...