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Barack Obama: “I think all of us are confident we can now achieve a broader sense of a U.S. relationship with a democratic Iraq.”

On the recordOctober 19, 2009
I think all of us are confident we can now achieve a broader sense of a U.S. relationship with a democratic Iraq.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks Following a Meeting With Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq

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