A hasty withdrawal would force Iraq to leave military equipment behind.
Mr. Bush has also called new attention to what he portrayed this week as the potentially catastrophic consequences of a hasty withdrawal.
He knew that his hasty withdrawal was most welcome to all three.
And then, after two false starts and hasty withdrawals, fingers touched again.
For history strongly suggests that a hasty American withdrawal from Iraq would be a disaster.
From the look of it they were making a hasty withdrawal, and this was too good an opportunity to miss.
But they could understand him and did not hold his hasty withdrawal against him.
Nation-building, of course, has its risks, but so does a hasty withdrawal as attempted at the end of our war with Iraq.
And I made a hasty withdrawal, hoping the enemy gunner would concentrate his fire on the gentlemen of the press.
They forced a hasty withdrawal into the timber along the bend in the river.