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On the recordMarch 18, 2008
What I've said is that our strategy continues to be a failed strategy. No one has answered the question as to how this operation in Iraq that has now lasted five years, will have cost us more than $1 trillion and thousands of lives, how this has made us more safe.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Barack Obama critiques the ongoing military strategy in Iraq and questions its effectiveness.

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