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On the recordDecember 5, 2006
Well, my hope is, is that if nothing else, the Iraq Study Group serves as a corrective to the kinds of obstinance that we have seen out of the White House.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama expresses hope that the Iraq Study Group report will influence the White House's approach to Iraq.

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