12/08/2009
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"The Iraqis are going to fight through their politics under the constitutional rules that they themselves have devised."
"The constitution, I think, will be an important benchmark because they are going to have to grapple with a lot of difficult issues, including the relation between religion and the state, the role of w..."
"Among the most important interests is United States support for a free and fair electoral process leading up to national elections in 2013."
"Many of us have been working for years, through the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline or through various other situations, to try to think how our European allies and NATO could come out from underneath what reall..."