No retreat, baby, no surrender.*

There's a war outside still ragin' ...

Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, offered a similar argument.

“This bill should be named the Date Certain for Surrender Act,” Mr. McCain said. “A second-year cadet at West Point could tell you that if you announce when the end will be, it’s a recipe for defeat.”

You say it ain't ours anymore to win.

But Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska broke with most of his Republican colleagues in endorsing a timetable and opposing the Cochran amendment. “There will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq,” Mr. Hagel said. “There will not be a military solution to Iraq.”

“Iraq belongs to the 25 million Iraqis who live there,” Mr. Hagel said. “It doesn’t belong to the United States.”

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"It's now time for the Congress to step forward and establish responsible boundaries and conditions for our continued military involvement in Iraq."

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*Springsteen