We have spent an enormous amount of lives and national treasure in Iraq. And yet, unless there is political reconciliation, where Sunnis feel that they are fighting for a country that includes them, we can continue to spend all the money in the world; we are not going to achieve our goal there, I think.
Menendez emphasizes the need for political reconciliation in Iraq.
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