Hillary Clinton

I have taken responsibility for my vote. The mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress into a war that should not have been waged.

The President's Iraq policy has been marred by incompetence and arrogance as his Administration has refused to recognize the military and political reality on the ground.

Based on the President's speech tonight, I cannot support his proposed escalation of the war in Iraq.

His efforts to continue to put the best face on what they have so terribly mismanaged in Iraq no longer has any credibility attached to it.

This is his war. He conceived it poorly. He executed it incompetently.

We're playing a very dangerous game of chicken here.

I think there are hundreds and thousands of insurgents who are willing to fight us and engage in sectarian warfare in Iraq. One of the reasons I oppose the escalation is that I don't believe that, you know, putting more American troops…

Bush shouldn't leave Iraq to the next administration.

Everyone that I know of who has studied this believes there is no military solution. There has to be a political component and an international component.

And I say, amen. You know, there's no oversight, no accountability. It's the first time we have had a war where, literally, the government has been given a blank check and the Congress didn't do its job.

This was his decision to go to war. He went with an ill-conceived plan and an incompetently executed strategy. And we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office.

No. You know, within a week we had Najaf.

No. But I also don't trust Vice President Cheney, so I really think it's fair to say his assessments have been wrong consistently.

For the president to say, as he said on several occasions, he is going to leave this to his successor -- this is his war. He conceived it poorly. He executed it incompetently. He's pursuing a strategy that is really more of the same.

The cap is meant to send a signal to the president, as is our efforts to get a resolution of disapproval, that he no longer has political support in the country and the Congress for pursuing this policy.

I think the president has made a lot mistakes, and his judgment in the undertaking in Iraq, certainly, has not been borne out.

And I say amen. You know, we're going to try to get to the bottom of these contracting abuses and the waste and the fraud that has gone on in these wars. There's been no oversight, no accountability.

We are playing a very dangerous game of chicken here.

I think it's important that whatever your advice is, it be given directly to the President on a regular basis.

It is certainly my opinion that the Vice President's office has played a major role, continues to play a major role, and runs a parallel operation.

I disapprove of the policy. I think it is a dead end. It continues the blank check.

There's no military solution in Iraq, and there's no military solution in Afghanistan.

It has nothing to do with the loyalty, the warrior skills, and the leadership of our men and women in uniform. It has everything to do with the years of lost opportunities and the failures of the Iraqis to step up and take responsibility…

I am very concerned that we are pursuing a policy that, regardless of what one thinks about it or how one evaluates its chances for success, certainly raises the fears that so many of our young men and women are going to be put into very…

Finally, will each and every soldier being deployed as part of this escalation have all the necessary force protection available to them to perform their mission?