Again, not saying this is all bad, if he wasn't proclaimed to be such a purist, just pointing out that other than the talk, he isn't that far from Chuck Hagel.
As for Iraq, that could be a whole other thread, I just choose to listen to the military in charge and not the press.. unless you can show where we had a time machine and knew exactly what would happen, it is hard to judge people who had a pile of facts and had to make a choice.. How do we know how the world would look if we didn't act?
It has been my understanding that he would pass requests for funding on to the appropriate committee but that he would vote against the appropriations bill. I can support that position.