10/14/2009
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"The administration's priorities in Iraq include supporting a unified federal democratic Iraq, fighting AQI and supporting human rights."
"my understanding of the President's goal was to shift from a military mission to an assistance mission in Afghanistan."
"On the whole, Iraqis take the approach that they are a sovereign democratic nation, that they are independent of Iran."
"I think that is a widely shared belief or point of view."