Joe Manchin actually said...

"There were concerns that I shared and wrote about before the invasion, that the invasion of Iraq would create the temptation or the possibility of a long-term occupation by the United States."

"Basically, those of us who lived through the 1974 oil embargo and saw what it had done and how it crippled the Nation."

"Does it not make a little bit of----"

"There are people on this committee, and in the Senate, who have argued that the United States should remain in Iraq in the same sense that it's remained in Korea, as a projection force."