Jimmy Carter: “I'm confident that the American people will support its deployment.”

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.

I don't agree with that at all.

I don't think the administration has ever picked up the ball, much less dropped it.

I think that sends a clear signal to Maliki that we won't be there indefinitely and my hope is that they'll be a commitment by the world community including the controversial nations of Syria and Iran.