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"It won't stop us," he said. "And it would be, I think, detrimental from the standpoint of the troops."

Is he referring to the troops that are getting sent into harm's way?

If U.S. forces were to pull out of Iraq, "we would simply validate the terrorists' strategy that says the Americans will not stay to complete the task ... that we don't have the stomach for the fight. That's the biggest threat." He added, "The notion that somehow the effort hasn't been worth it, or that we shouldn't go ahead and complete the task, is just dead wrong."

I thought the task in Iraq was to get rid of the WMDs.