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Leon Panetta: “Any future security relationship would be fundamentally different from the one we have had since 2003.”

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
Any future security relationship would be fundamentally different from the one we have had since 2003.
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Leon Panetta
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Panetta outlines a shift in the U.S.-Iraq security relationship post-2011.

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