Joe Manchin actually said...

We cannot afford to let the gains our troops have sacrificed so much for in Iraq slip away before they are cemented.

We seek a country that is sovereign, stable and self-reliant, with a government that is just, representative and accountable.

If we are no longer there they will turn their focus on the Government of Iraq.

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 i...