07/30/2011
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"That would be a victory for common sense. It would be a victory for a pragmatic foreign policy that will actually make us more safe."
"My commitment to end the war is one that dates back to 2002. Senator Clinton's commitment to end the war dates back to her decision to run for president."
"Well, I think what is possible is for us to create a best case in Iraq in which the country is stable, we don't have active terrorist cells inside of Iraq. And that we have redeployed our troops in a ..."
"If I was just running the textbook campaign, doing the conventional thing, I probably wasn't going to win, because Senator Clinton was going to be much more capable of doing that than I would be."