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Ed Markey: Let the Sunnis control it. Let the good people run their own institutions, and then we will have some confidence that…

On the recordApril 11, 2016
Let the Sunnis control it. Let the good people run their own institutions, and then we will have some confidence that the people in Mosul will rise up and fight.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey emphasizes the need for Sunni control in Iraq for stability.

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