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There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

We are not going to abandon Iraq.

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.

It was not in our interest to enter Iraq in the first place.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.