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Joe Lieberman: “The war is not lost in Iraq. In fact, now American Iraqi security forces are winning. The enemy is on the run in Iraq.…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2007
The war is not lost in Iraq. In fact, now American Iraqi security forces are winning. The enemy is on the run in Iraq. But, here in -- in Congress, in Washington, we seem to be, or some -- some members seem to be on the run, chased, I fear, by public opinion polls.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Senator Lieberman asserts that the war in Iraq is not lost and criticizes Congress for being influenced by public opinion.

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