02/03/2016
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"I continue to believe that this decision represents a failure of leadership, both Iraqi and American, that it was a sad case of political expediency, supplanting military necessity, both in Baghdad an..."
"It is time to complete the transition of responsibility for Iraq's security now to the Iraq Government."
"First, and most importantly, we should leave because we said we would."
"U.S. troops should leave because they are the wrong instrument for the political problems that the Iraqis now face."