Barack Obama: “He wants to fulfill his campaign promise of pulling all US combat troops from Iraq within 16 months.”

Never talks that way when they are in the same room.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

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…

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.