Barack Obama: “You allowed us to bring our troops home so their families could greet them and say, 'Welcome home.'”

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

Your task is not to impose litmus tests.

And there’s no reason to suggest that we can’t get through this one either.

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.