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Chafee, who for everything else you know about him, he really was the one republican u.s. senator at the time who voted against the iraq war, and she stands alongside bernie sanders, who was a member of the house at the time and who as a member of the house voted against the iraq war. and she stands alongside jim webb, who wasn't even in congress at the time but as a public figure and a former secretary of the navy he was on the record at the time opposing the iraq war. to be fair, i'm not sure anybody thought to ask martin o'malley, who was mayor of baltimore at the time, but at least he cert...

Democratic debate anderson cooper, he tried to follow that up with a question for lincoln chafee about whether that meant a president lincoln chafee would extend the war in afghanistan? yes, it got asked. mr. cooper asked that question. but that question never got answered. and we moved on. and in terms of who else is in washington, congress is so distant from making political decisions about the wars that we've actually started a new hugely controversial major war effort in the past year in syria without congress ever even taking a vote on it. when our political system and all that entails, w...

By george w. bush. it's no secret that wars are a lot easier to start than they are to end. but now that president obama has officially announced as of today thael not end the war in afghanistan and the next president is going to inherit thousands of american troops there on large military bases in that country, well, now all of a sudden it newly becomes really important to know what the candidates who want to be the next president plan to do about that war if they're elected. this really wasn't on their next president to-do list before today, but it is now. and as a country we're great at cov...

With but also the veterans community, can i just ask you as a vet how this resonates. what you think this is going to mean and how this is going to sound not just to those still serving in afghanistan and their families but to the people who have served there over this incredibly long, historically long period of time that we've been at war in that country. >> it's the long yet war in our nation's history, and we all want to see if come to an end. by think the troops also want to know their effort hasn't gone to waste. that's what i saw when i went back to iraq this february as a member of the...

Tablet or does this announcement from the president today surprise or concern you? >> i don't think it was always an inevitability but the conditions are such in afghanistan, and i saw this when i visited in february, that i think ease made a difficult but correct decision. you know, after four tours in iraq, a war that i think was a mistake, i want to bring the troops home as much as all the rest of us. but the problem is that we can't bring the troops home too soon so that we have to send them back just like we've done in iraq. the president who promised to get us out of iraq has had to send...