12/09/2015
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"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."
"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."
"The U.N. reports that last month was the deadliest in Iraq since 2008, with 2,400 Iraqis killed, two-thirds of which were civilians."
"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."