Posted by: zanshin, 2007-09-02 07:14

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Date: 2007-09-02 (Sunday)
"They [= US lawmakers] do not realize the size of the disaster that Iraq has passed through and the big role of this government, a government of national unity. The most important achievement is it stopped a sectarian and civil war."
-- Nuri al-Maliki, Prime Minister of Iraq, at a news conference






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