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 f...
We were worried, and were saying so at the time, that this endeavor would harm the country's economy, that it would blow...
Make no mistake, after sacrificing hundreds of billions of American taxpayers' dollars and nearly 4,500 American lives, ...
We cannot afford to let the gains we have sacrificed so much for slip away.
We cannot afford to let the gains our troops have sacrificed so much for in Iraq slip away before they are cemented.
General Austin, you have said that internal security in Iraq is the best it's been in years...
We seek a country that is sovereign, stable and self-reliant, with a government that is just, representative and account...
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----
No one should interpret my comments today as a lack of support for Iraq and the continued U.S. involvement there.
There were concerns that I shared and wrote about before the invasion, that the invasion of Iraq would create the tempta...