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This Current Government In Iraq Has Never Fulfilled The Commitments It Made To Form A Unity Government With The Kurds, The Sunnis And The Shia. We Have Worked Hard With Them Within The Confines Of Our Ability To Do That But We Can't Dictate To Them.

And I Want Every One Of You, Every One Of Us, 100 Senators To Look In That Camera, And You Tell Your People Back Home What You Think. Don't Hide Anymore; None Of Us. That Is The Essence Of Our Responsibility. And If We're Not Willing To Do It, We're Not Worthy To Be Seated Right Here. We Fail Our Country. If We Don't Debate This, If We Don't Debate This, We Are Not Worthy Of Our Country. We Fail Our Country.

Foreign Policy Will Require A Strategic Agility That, Whenever Possible, Gets Ahead Of Problems, Strengthens U.s. Security And Alliances, And Promotes American Interests And Credibility.

Desperate Men Do Desperate Things When You Take Hope Away. And That's Where The Palestinians Are Today.

And This - This Board Was - Was Impanelled In 1951. And It's Gone Through Ups And Downs In How The Secretaries Have Used It. But I Have Put A Premium On That Advisory Board.