The transcript of Santorum speaking last Sept. 21 at an impromptu news conference outside a private luncheon of GOP senators in Washington was overlooked during a search of an electronic database and office files, spokesman Robert Traynham said.
"There are concerns - I have concerns - about tactics and decisions that were made," Santorum said, according to the transcript, made bythe Federal News Service. "I think you'd find a lot of Republicans who are very willing to second-guess our tactics in Fallujah, for example."
At the time, during the heat of the presidential campaign, several GOP senators had criticized the military decision to turn over security in Fallujah to poorly trained Iraqi troops after a U.S. invasion of the city in April 2004.
The criticism - that lack of a strong U.S. presence in Fallujah had allowed insurgents to regroup - came after several grisly suicide bombings there.
"And in my opinion, it was not the right call, but you know what? That's not my decision," Santorum said in the Sept. 21 news conference. At another point, he told reporters that too much "Monday morning quarterbacking" of military commanders would not help the war effort.
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