White House counselor Dan Bartlett on the candidates in Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate: “All they are trying to do is placate a very radical element of their own party who says, ‘Get out now. Damn the consequences. It doesn’t matter, just get out.’ And that is not a serious foreign policy.”
Reality check: In the latest polling on Iraq, 64 percent of Americans say the United States should set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
