12/06/2011
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"I have authorized the U.S. Armed Forces to conduct targeted airstrikes in Iraq."
"President Obama has been unequivocal that he will do what is necessary and what is in our national interest to confront ISIL and its threat to the security of the region and to our own long-term secur..."
"As commander-in-chief, I will not allow the United States to be drag into fighting another war in Iraq and so, even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to this terrorists, American combat troo..."
"We should have zero tolerance for that."