03/04/2009
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"Our military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31. The drawdown is proceeding in a secure and orderly way."
"Americans understand we are going to try and get it done before August 31."
"it was in 2009, in the beginning of the Obama administration, when they did an Afghan review, that Vice President Joe Biden stood up and said, no, it`s time to go."
"the public broadly supports this, even if they`re getting hit left and right by members of Congress"