“Stay the course is not a policy…. And so I think by any standard when you analyze two and a half years in Iraq where we have put in over a third of a trillion dollars, where we have lost over 1,900 Americans, over 14,000 wounded, electricity production down, oil production down… any measurement, any standard you apply to this, we’re not winning…. The longer we stay, the more problems we’re going to have.”

– Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska)