It's -- it's run its course. And now we're going to move on.

I don't think Congress ought to be running the war, I think they ought to be funding our troops.

I believe that it's in this nation's interests to give the commander a chance to fully implement his operations, and I believe Congress ought to wait for General Petraeus to come back and give his assessment of the strategy that he's…

We'll take care of the poor, and we'll help the elderly. But we believe health care is best run in the private sector, not by the government.

We just started. He got all the troops there a couple of weeks ago. He asked for, you know, 20,000 troops, and I said, if that's what you need, Commander, that's what you got.

You can ask, but I don't have to answer whether he was asked.

We are not in the Middle East to protect oil. We are there to stand up against aggression.

Larry, congratulations.

It's a tough fight. But I wouldn't have asked those troops to go into harm's way if the fight was not essential to the security of the United States of America.

I felt the punishment was severe. So, I made a decision that would commute his sentence, but leave in place a serious fine and probation. As to the future, I, you know, rule nothing in and nothing out.

The last of the reinforcements arrived in Iraq earlier this month. We are beyond a surge of forces, and we're now into a surge of operations.

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