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Joe Manchin: “Strengthening our partnership with Iraq will help us to advance significant interests, including counterterrorism…”

On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
Strengthening our partnership with Iraq will help us to advance significant interests, including counterterrorism cooperation against threats to our national security and that of the region, economic growth and the stabilization of global energy markets, and the development of democracy.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Highlights the benefits of U.S.-Iraq partnership for security and economic interests.

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