Carl Levin actually said...

"I'm not going to vote no because I voted no 15 years ago."

"It ignores the realities on the ground to say that absolutely we are winning in Iraq, everybody's losing in Iraq at the moment and until there's a political settlement, they're going to continue to lo..."

"I'd like the president to tell the Iraqi leaders that we are going to begin a phased redeployment of our troops from Iraq in four to six months."

"This is not a precipitous proposal. It's something which would allow for planning. And so it is not an accurate description."