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Fri Jun 13, 2014, 10:05 PM Jun 2014

Hillary Clinton: U.S. military assistance to Iraqi government must have specific conditions

Hillary Clinton: U.S. military assistance to Iraqi government must have specific conditions

By Wesley Lowery at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-us-military-assistance-to-iraqi-government-must-have-specific-conditions/2014/06/13/ea4b994c-f275-11e3-9ebc-2ee6f81ed217_story.html

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She was sharply critical of the Iraqi government and specifically Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has requested U.S. assistance in stopping an extremist insurgency that threatens to topple the nation.

“You don’t have a government that can inspire loyalty even among its army and certainly not among its disparate groups,” Clinton said.

Clinton described the current Iraqi government as “dysfunctional, unrepresentative and authoritarian.” The negotiation of conditions for military assistance will be a “delicate and difficult task . . . because we certainly don’t want to fight their fight,” she said.

“There’s no reason that I know of that we would ever sacrifice a single American life for that,” she added.



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Hillary Clinton: U.S. military assistance to Iraqi government must have specific conditions (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2014 OP
wow that's a bold statement elehhhhna Jun 2014 #1
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