00:00So this was, I, early on, in 2009, I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.
00:11I wrote to President a handwritten 40-page memorandum arguing against deploying additional troops to Iraq,
00:22I mean to Afghanistan, on the grounds that it wouldn't matter.
00:28That the day we left would be like the day before we arrived.
00:34The day we left was pushing.
00:36Yeah.
00:37Yeah.
00:37And I made the same argument relative, for example, it starts off General Austin saying,
00:53quote, I don't know if we can have a unified Iraq, I don't mean we have to decide that now,
00:59he was saying.
01:00I made that, I wrote that piece now 11 years ago, 12 years ago.
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