David Gergen actually said...

It was a huge embarrassment.

It seems to me almost impossible now for the president to come out of a meeting with Mr. Maliki in the next few hours and say with a straigh...

Of course we believe in withdrawal. There's no timetable here. And we'll do it when the mission is completed.

They could not put a timetable in because they knew the president had already declared publicly and repeatedly that he would not accept a ti...