At the September 11, 2007, testimony of Commander of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker at the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) said: ” ‘We should stop the surge and start bringing our troops home. We should end a political strategy in Iraq that cannot succeed and begin one that can.’ ”
– Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble, Page 247