We support an Iraq that is sovereign and self-reliant; that has a just, representative, and accountable government...
Leon Panetta: “We support an Iraq that is sovereign and self-reliant; that has a just, representative, and accountable government...”
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Panetta outlines the desired strategic relationship with Iraq.
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Mr. Trump has always prided himself on being a dealmaker, pledging in his campaign that he would resolve such conflicts in the first few days of his presidency.
It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.
The facts have to be presented to the American people, and it's the American people who will judge what is right or wrong.
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