02/23/2021
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"I share the chairman's concern--and I know you do, too--about the security environment in Iraq."
"Has the world gotten 2.6 percent more dangerous? I would say it has."
"I just don't see how we can effectively engage the Iraqi people, given the deteriorating security situation."
"I hope we can persuade him to step down. It doesn't seem to be that we are very successful right now."