"We must get out of Iraq, and soon"

"our presence exacerbates the security problems."

"We are in a Muslim country and Muslims' views of foreigners in their country are quite clear."

As a foreigner, you can be welcomed by being invited in a country, but we weren't invited certainly by those in Iraq at the time.

"The military campaign we fought in 2003 effectively kicked the door in. Whatever consent we may have had in the first place, may have turned to tolerance and has largely turned to intolerance."

"That is a fact. I don't say that the difficulties we are experiencing round the world are caused by our presence in Iraq but undoubtedly our presence in Iraq exacerbates them." [snip]

What kind of a left-wing, terror-lovin', peacenik would say such a thing?

Why this guy:

Sir Richard Dannatt, the outgoing British Chief of General Staff.

Hard to call him a "cut & run" kind of guy.