"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."
"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..."
"This is his war. He conceived it poorly. He executed it incompetently."
"Bush shouldn't leave Iraq to the next administration."
"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 j..."
"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..."
"I think the president has made a lot mistakes, and his judgment in the undertaking in Iraq, certainly, has not been borne out."
"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 poli..."
"This is not -- they've done by the book. In other words, the president's, in her eyes and in many Americans' eyes, failed political strategy in Iraq. It's not going to work."
"Senator Hillary Clinton jumped into the 2008 presidential race."