While at an event in New Hampshire, “Secondly, if we put an artificial timetable out there on withdrawal, all the enemies says is, we’ll wait them out. Our mission has got to be to help to train the Iraqis, get them on the path to stability and democracy as quickly as we can, and then our troops come home. But to complete the mission. It makes no sense to pull out of there early. If we pull out of there early, Iraq will come even more dangerous. See, we’ve got to get it right in Afghanistan and Iraq, and we will. And now, it’s a matter of will.”
– Transcript, “President’s Remarks at Ask President Bush Event in Derry, New Hampshire”, George W Bush- White House Archive, September 20, 2004, Accessed 8-16-16