06/08/2021
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"If neighboring countries see that Iraq is weak and incapable of protecting its border and internal security, then definitely there will be interference."
"I asked Admiral Mullen, your predecessor, what is the risk of an Arab-Kurdish conflict over the oil reserves around Kirkuk in terms of a conflict if we are not present. He said it was high."
"Would it be a political problem for President Obama to announce this year that we are going to keep 15,000 people in Iraq past 2012?"
"I think it is no accident that the troops are coming home 2 months before this election in Afghanistan."