04/21/2009
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"This is a time for acting in a way that's responsible. If you really want to stop the war, cut the funding. It does make you accountable for what happens thereafter, but you have done something as a m..."
"General Petraeus is a combination of extraordinary experience and a real passion about what we're doing in Iraq. He believes we can win. And I think he will infuse that spirit into our forces there an..."
"What do you believe, General, would be the effect on the sectarian violence in Iraq?"
"I think, on that great challenge of our time, the president gets it. And I -- I say that across party lines. And I think he's tried his best to alert America to that danger."