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On the recordDecember 5, 2006
Well, I think that what this administration has done is to become so obsessed with Iraq, and invest so much of our military, political, economic capital into Iraq, that we have been neglectful of what is one of the essential ingredients in bringing about some sort of stability in the Middle East, and that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama critiques the Bush administration's focus on Iraq at the expense of addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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