Do you agree that immediate, full accountability is essential for money already appropriated and spent?

There was a poll last year during the campaign that showed more than 70 percent of the troops in Iraq believe we should be out within a year.

Right, but that would be a doable articulation of where we want to end up?

The removal of combat troops from the streets of Iraq?

The issue of the attitudes of people who are serving is in my view not wholly appropriate to the political debate.

I think we up here and the senior military are the fiduciaries of the goodwill and the service of those people.

there is not a military solution, there is a political solution.

Many, including myself, warned even before the war began that it was unnecessary, that it would take our energy and attention away from the larger war against terrorism, and that invading and occupying Iraq would leave us strategically…

if you're going to call for the immediate withdrawal of 40,000 to 50,000 American troops, you're going to have to tell us which ones they are, where they're stationed now, and what the rest of the troops are going to be doing when those…

The majority of the nation no longer supports this war -- the way this war is being fought, nor does the majority of our military, nor does the majority of Congress. We need a new direction.

I would like to also, today, call on our president to publicly denounce the campaign tactics that have divided us, rather than brought us together.

I ran on three basic themes. One was reorganizing our national defense structure.