I will send at least two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan, and use this commitment to seek greater contributions – with fewer restrictions – from NATO allies.

For weeks now, Senator McCain has argued that the gains of the surge mean that I should change my commitment to end the war. But this argument misconstrues what is necessary to succeed in Iraq, and stubbornly ignores the facts of the…

It should have been apparent to President Bush and Senator McCain, the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was.

The greatest threat to that security lies in the tribal regions of Pakistan where terrorists train and insurgents strike in Afghanistan.

I am absolutely convinced that strategically it is time for us to bring this war to an end. And we can bring our combat troops out over the course of 16 months, which would mean that we would have gotten our combat troops out two years…

George Bush and John McCain don't have a strategy for success in Iraq; they have a strategy for staying in Iraq.

It is a huge disaster. We've got 7,000 foreclosures a day. If we had implemented some simple reforms around Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, if we had had some serious efforts to curb predatory lending, a lot of these problems that we've seen…

I am absolutely convinced that, strategically, it is time for us to bring this war to an end.

if he was president, he would provide, and I quote, 'at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan.'

at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan.

Stand by and let our children drop out of school and turn to gangs for the support they're not getting elsewhere in the community. That's not the freedom that we fought to achieve. That's not the America that our leadership sought to…