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Pete Hoekstra: “It is why they are nervous about us pulling our final troops out, because we are the ones that have earned their trust…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2006
It is why they are nervous about us pulling our final troops out, because we are the ones that have earned their trust, and they still look to you, and I both hope and pray for the day where the same type of result, as we see in Kosovo, as we see in Bosnia, that we can see that same kind of result in the rest of Iraq.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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