claim: "he was a member of the iraq study group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in iraq."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: sep 8, 2008 ... david petraeus, the pressures of politics, and the road out of iraq. ... as he departed for baghdad, to oversee a “surge” deployment of additional american troops to iraq, he sought, as he recalled it, “to try to avoid being ... “how many more names will be added to the wall before we admit it is time to leave?
evidence_2: feb 1, 2017 ... barker: welcome to today's council on foreign relations lessons from history series meeting: “iraq reconsidered: ten years after the surge” with ..... wolf on the appropriations committee got money and—for what he called the iraq study group to rethink where we were going in iraq—that members of ...
evidence_3: dec 5, 2006 ... the iraq study group, of which you were a member, will formally present its findings and recommendations. i commend the ... you will be an important part of the new review process and determining the strategy and the direction this country together with our partners in the coalition must pursue. i urge you ...
evidence_4: he told members of the military that the nation was grateful for their nonstop deployments and for the unique losses and burdens placed on them through the past dozen years of open-ended war. .... let's skip to today's iraq-afghanistan era, in which everyone “supports” the troops but few know very much about them.
evidence_5: dec 3, 2017 ... kaepernick has filed a grievance against the league and teams for allegedly colluding to keep him out of the nfl for his protests. ... out against racial injustice in the way that he has, and said the group had declined to publicize kaepernick's appearance in advance because he has received death threats.