Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
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To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.
I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.
Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.