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1. “The really big picture that we have seen in Iraq over the last year and a half to two years is this: the number of violent incidents is significantly down, the competence of Iraqi security forces is significantly up, and politics has emerged as the basic way of doing business in Iraq.”
2. "The cumulative sentiment here is that he made a fortune off of the state’s resources in the free-wheeling laissez-faire times of the late nineteenth century, prostituted the political system with his wealth and power, exploited the working class for his own gain, left an environmental wreck behind and took his millions to other places to benefit a handful of others. And in some ways, the state has never really recovered from it all."
3. Do people really think that he would have been elected POTUS if this was true?
4. “It is always a separate question . . . as to how people did their jobs on a particular night, but I find nothing amiss or in need of change in any of our policies.’’
5. "Simply everyone understands we are enforcing simple rules: One cannot just illegally occupy land without authorization."