05/16/2012
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"The Iraqis are very eager, under our strategic framework agreement, for U.S. assistance to be the backbone of their response."
"I have now gotten to the point where I question--I hate to say it--how effective that is going to be at this point."
"I know that those of us who have visited recently know that before this all occurred U.S. influence was at an all-time low and really almost not present."
"Iraq seems to be disintegrating as the terrorist organization ISIS now controls Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, Fallujah, and much of Ramadi."