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On the recordJanuary 23, 2007
There seems to be an attitude that if we just put enough pressure on the Iraqis... that would seem to me to be a bad thing.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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Expressing concern about the pressure on Iraqis leading to governance collapse.

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