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Gilbert Gutknecht: “Exactly. That is where I really was disappointed. I thought Baghdad would be much more secure than what we saw or…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2006
Exactly. That is where I really was disappointed. I thought Baghdad would be much more secure than what we saw or learned about it. But you have to have military security progress, and you have to have economic progress, and you have to have political progress.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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