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On the recordSeptember 12, 2007
Our troops have done a tremendous job in Iraq, and we know they'll do whatever is asked of them-but it's time for the administration to come clean and acknowledge that no amount of American heroism is going to force Iraq's leaders to reconcile and end their civil war.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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