I would add that Senator Lieberman would have gone further than the Senator. There is nobody whom I respect more than Senator Lieberman, but we are trying to find a balanced way. So in summary, 1032, the military custody provision, which…

I completely concur with the idea that American troops should not be left behind in Iraq without legal protections.

I asked Admiral Mullen, your predecessor, what is the risk of an Arab-Kurdish conflict over the oil reserves around Kirkuk in terms of a conflict if we are not present. He said it was high.

If it were up to the Kurds, there would be 50,000 American troops in Kurdistan.

No American politician, Republican or Democrat, would accept a follow-on force without legal protections.

Can you tell the people back here that the likelihood of their friends and family being killed is going up greatly if there are no American forces up there policing that problem?

I think it is no accident that the troops are coming home 2 months before this election in Afghanistan.

He should come to the United States and be tried by military commissions.

I do not know who does the negotiation for the United States, but if I had three people saying those things, I thought I could get it over the finish line.

If an American soldier were accused of rape anywhere in Iraq, I do not think they would get a fair trial.

Would it be a political problem for President Obama to announce this year that we are going to keep 15,000 people in Iraq past 2012?

If neighboring countries see that Iraq is weak and incapable of protecting its border and internal security, then definitely there will be interference.