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Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.

To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.

Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

We are not going to abandon Iraq.

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them.

Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.