Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. ...
Not everyone at the White House has agreed with me.
It is a measurement. But I don't think it is the measurement. I mean, I was in a war with a lot of body counts every day. We lost everyone.
It is a responsibility of the Congress.
Anbar is in danger.
No is the first basic answer.
ISIL is a very clear threat to the United States of America, to our people.
If Congress would not agree to that request, it would be a pretty devastating message that we send to the world.
The last government in Iraq, over the last 5 years, have actually exacerbated the effort and intentionally destroyed the capability of a uni...
ISIL is a threat to America, our allies, our interests around the world.
We are in a different situation today, in what the President has laid out to the American people as to what his objectives are.