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Bill Clinton: No. I think that we will have to draw down our troops. They have said they want us to draw down our troops. And I think…

On the recordDecember 1, 2005
No. I think that we will have to draw down our troops. They have said they want us to draw down our troops. And I think his idea that we need greater strike force capacity, he said right outside the country. I would favor, I think, locating them in the Kurdish areas or someplace in the country where they'd be safe.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Bill Clinton discusses the necessity of drawing down U.S. troops in Iraq and the importance of allowing Iraqi parliamentary elections to take place first.

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