07/18/2012
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"Ultimately, that decision will be made by the Iraqi central government."
"[peacekeeping] is not something that we do for others; this is something that we do collectively because our collective security depends on it."
"I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to Burma, Iraq, and Nigeria."
"In serving each other, we make the country better, and we help every member of the American family."