I hope the members of this body who have politicized this issue by making false allegations of manipulation of intelligence would realize their allegations only serve to divide the American people and undermine critical American resolve to finish the important work we are about in Iraq,
an artificial landmark. Of course we grieve over each one of those losses, but it's an artificial number that some are using to try to undermine support for our effort there. These are people without any constructive alternative; is cutting and running what we're supposed to do?