James Lankford actually said...

"the Iraqi Kurdish forces are one of our critical partners--if not the most critical partner we have in the fight against ISIS."

"So either way it is a really bad situation for them."

"please do not hear from us we are interested in speed and not quality."

"At the end of the day, I do not want us to end up with a longer backlog because we tried a novel theory that may or may not have worked."