Death squads and armed gangs are going around murdering people, kidnapping people, sometimes in broad daylight. There has to be a consequence for that. People need to be held to account.
Hadley highlights the urgent need for accountability regarding the violence in Iraq.
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I think the main thing that we have to think about is how to explain to the American people that our safety and security depends on a different--that we can't wall ourselves off from things.
We need to have not just be talking about democracy; we've got to have a conscious strategy for how to counter what they're doing.
We have to show that our politics can actually, on a bipartisan basis, solve some of the problems we face.
I think it would be a good thing. I think the American people need to know that the Congress of the United States is behind this effort that the administration is trying to mount.