If we had followed your policy, wouldn't Al Qaeda by now be able to say that they  had driven the US out of Iraq? ... “Hillary will begin immediate phased withdrawal  [from Iraq] with a definite timetable to bring our troops home.” --Hillary ..... Q: Is  Iraq today better off than it was six months or a year ago because of the surge?
During General Petraeus's April 2008 testimony before the Armed Services  Committee, Clinton said that political progress in Iraq had not matched the  security gains brought by the troop surge, that too much of the U.S. military was  tied down in Iraq, and that "it's time to begin an orderly process of withdrawing  our troops.".
Aug 13, 2015 ... Jeb Bush says President Obama is to blame for the “premature withdrawal” of all  U.S. troops. Hillary Clinton's campaign reminded Bush that his brother, President  George W. Bush, signed an agreement that set Dec. 31, 2011, as the withdrawal  date. Both have a point, but there's more to the story than either ...
May 25, 2007 ... Congress sent a $120 billion war spending bill to the White House late Thursday,  abandoning a call for most U.S. troops to leave Iraq after an earlier veto ... In the  Senate, leading Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and  Barack Obama were among the 14 members who opposed the ...
The group not only called for the withdrawal from Iraq by early 2008 of all U.S.  combat troops not necessary for force protection. It also proposed .... “If we'd had  a residual force of 10,000 to 12,000,” Senator Lindsey Graham said last year, “I  am totally convinced there would not have been a rise of al-Qaeda.” In reality, the  ...
Sen. Clinton said "the surge of troops in Iraq was 'working.' Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge 'has failed' and that we should 'begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.'"