This ought to get him some mileage with the nutroots.

Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”

So, basically we need to pull out of Iraq so we can alter our strategy of mass-murdering civilians across Afghanistan.