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Barack Obama: “The time for us to ask how we were going to get out of Iraq was before we went in.”

On the recordJuly 22, 2007
The time for us to ask how we were going to get out of Iraq was before we went in.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama criticized the timing of discussions regarding withdrawal from Iraq.

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