Military Exit Quotes

Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.

Victory means exit strategy. And it's important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.

Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

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.

Once the people of Iraq know when the U.S. troops will leave, their confidence in the U.S. will increase.

I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank.