Jay Carney: “It's not to defend conventional speech or not to protect acceptable speech, but to protect and defend offensive speech…”

We don't question the right of something like this to be published. We just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it.

The fact of the matter is, as I discussed with Senator McCain, the president did try to negotiate with the sovereign Iraqi government for the presence of a residual force in Iraq of U.S. troops for the training and CT missions that were…

The answer, although it might have been appealing sometimes and it can be appealing in retrospect, is not always the use of military force without end and without a logical plan to reach success.

But in the end, either Iraq is sovereign or it's not. Either we're an occupying force or we're an invited force.