claim: "we have drawn down to presurge levels. basra, mosul and now sadr city are quiet and it's long and it's tough and there will be setbacks."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: mar 17, 2006 ... and then there's 700 million in the supplemental budget for humanitarian relief, which we don't competitively bid 'cause it's charities that get that money. koppel: i understand. but as far as reconstruction goes, the american taxpayer will not be hit for more than $1.7 billion no matter how long the process ...
evidence_2: may 31, 2008 ... basra, mosul and now sadr city are quiet and it's long and it's hard and it's tough and there will be setbacks. (…) ... there are now 155,000 troops in iraq — far above the 130,000 before the surge. ... and what you're saying is, we will have drawn down to pre-surge levels by june — or, i'm sorry, by july.
evidence_3: jan 6, 2011 ... foreword. in march 2003, the united states and its coalition partners began operation iraqi. freedom. ... at great cost and sacrifice, both by the people of iraq and all who have served there. it should not be ... ernment, the iraqi civil war and long counterinsurgency, and the efforts undertaken in what must be ...
evidence_4: dec 21, 2003 ... december 21, 2003 traps ahead iraq and its patron, growing apart by roger cohen baghdad — from the roof of a former state-owned ... in the north, the kurds, having lived separately through the last years of mr. hussein's rule, in their own american-protected enclave, now calculate how best to ...
evidence_5: jul 9, 2007 ... january 2003 predicted that establishing a stable and secure democracy in iraq would be a long and difficult task. ... qa'ida forces that its attacks on civilians and coalition and iraqi troops dropped sharply. ... government forces have always been able to win at the tactical level, but so far have not been.