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Date: 2007-09-10 (Monday)
“The situation in Iraq remains complex, difficult and sometimes downright frustrating.
I also believe that it is possible to achieve our objectives in Iraq over time, although doing so will be neither quick nor easy.”
-- Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior American commander in Iraq, in a testimony for Congress






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