09/07/2011
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"The fact of the matter is when the surge was undertaken, it was designed to tamp down violence to give some breathing room for the Iraqis, Sunni, Shia, the Kurds to do political reconciliation."
"Since 2003, we have spent $8 billion training the Iraqi police, approximately $1 billion a year."
"In Iranian political and terror ethos, there is the near enemy, Israel. But there is also the far enemy, the United States of America."
"I commend my colleague, Jeff Duncan, for his bipartisan resolution to include as an area of focus the Western Hemisphere in our Nation's counterterrorism efforts."