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Mike Pence: “This new strategy that is a clear hold-and-build strategy, working to provide basic security and stability in Baghdad…”

On the recordApril 30, 2007
This new strategy that is a clear hold-and-build strategy, working to provide basic security and stability in Baghdad, is probably what we should have been doing for the last three years as a counterinsurgency measure.
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Mike Pence
Republican · Indiana

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Pence reflects on the need for a new military strategy in Iraq.

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