Tim Kaine actually said...

"I think it is only tenable that we stay with the Iraqi Government's support rather than against their wishes."

"I kind of, in my own mind, use the phrase 'partner.' You used 'partnership.' Partner, not protector, and trying to kind of look at it that way."

"The United States must not abandon them."

"We should actually ask the people involved and what it is that they want, their own desires, their own aspirations."