01/27/2015
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"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."
"Prime Minister Maliki has not been the kind of Prime Minister to create any kind of sense that a central government can resolve the ethnic and civil issues that exist there."