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On the recordDecember 5, 2006
I think it would be hard not to see in this report a rebuke of a ideologically-driven strategy that has the been blind to what's been happening on the ground for the last several years.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama discusses the implications of the Iraq Study Group report as a criticism of the Bush administration's strategy.

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