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On the recordJanuary 23, 2007
Right, and I think that the thing that we often miss in this debate, because it's become like the Battle of the Psalm, politically, in terms of the way people have dug in up here on trying to resolve this issue, but there are instabilities that have been created, simply because we're there, and there are instabilities that could result if we leave in the wrong way. But we do need, in my view, to be moving toward that.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing instabilities caused by U.S. presence in Iraq and the need for careful withdrawal.

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