Mike Levin: “I thank my friend, and I don't view this at all as personal. A matter of fact, we had this interim report on July 15.…”

“I thank my friend, and I don't view this at all as personal. A matter of fact, we had this interim report on July 15. What did it come in and say? It came in and said, on the political side, nothing has happened in Iraq; and on the political side, we see no advances. But the political side is where the advances have to take place. As a matter of fact, the President said, when he came up with this surge policy, that the purpose of the surge was to give the political leaders an opportunity to reach a political settlement. Well, they have had that opportunity, they haven't done it, and the surge has not accomplished anything in the area of a political settlement.”