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John Hall: “The Maliki Government is somewhere between challenged and dysfunctional. Now, that was October. In March General…”

On the recordApril 16, 2008
The Maliki Government is somewhere between challenged and dysfunctional. Now, that was October. In March General Petraeus stated on March 13, ``No one feels that there has been sufficient progress by any means in the area of national reconciliation.'' So it's my contention that not only do the Iraqis need to start paying for their own reconstruction, I think they need to take responsibility for their own security as well because as long as we are putting our men and women in a police role to try to police their civil war and their ethnic and tribal and religious differences, it's just going to let them continue to be dysfunctional.
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John Hall
Democratic · New York
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Discussing the state of Iraq's government and the need for Iraqi responsibility in security and reconstruction.

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