Political Quotes

On the recordJanuary 15, 2007
Are there any circumstances that you can articulate in which we would say to the Maliki government that enough is enough and we are no longer committing our troops?
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama questions the conditions under which U.S. troops might be withdrawn from Iraq.

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