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iraq he government trying to do three separate governments dealing with the problem with the kurds now in that turkey is saying they are going to go militarily because they don't want a kurdish nation. and having the sunni state is also it may be workable but right now there's not a good way for us to engage them because we let them down repeatedly. so trying to rehabilitate them is going to be problematic. so i think again, we have to be in iraq for a long period of time unfortunately. >> deck just behind you. >> i was wondering what your attitude is towards the democracy in the middle east has advanced in the political interest with self-interest. do you have any opinions on a? >> there is some merit to it. how we got to the position in 2009 is not probably help we would have liked to have gotten there but there was an opportunity created that it would have made sense. and i do think that in 2003, there were a lot of people who underestimated what it would take to democratize iraq. and i think there is a belief that you just introduced the institutions and you can quickly democratize

in order to unify iraq, our government has set forth a framework for national reckon sillization, we seek a fair, comprehensive and historic settlement within every segment of our society in order to save our country from the prospects of civil war and partnership. our framing for reconciliation is built upon three pillars, the constitution, political agreements through the major political block support by the prime minister abadi and also the government's program that was approved by parliament. these are the basic principles. every stockholder -- stake holder in our society must be committed to national unity and rule of law. everyone must accept the results of democratic process. everyone must reject dictatorship. sectarianism and the use of violence as a means to extract political concessions and everyone must respect each other and respect each other's basic human rights. iraqis also deserve and demand security forces that can protect our people from the barbarism. as with our civilian government, and our security forces must be cleansed of corruption while reflecting the popula

in order to unify iraq, our government has stepped forward from a framework of national reconciliation. we seek a fair, comprehensive, and historic settlement between every segment of our society, to save our country from the prospect of civil war. our national reconciliation frameworis built upon three pillars. the constitution. political agreements through the major political blocs that support the prime minister, and the government program approved by parliament. these are the basic principles. every stakeholder in our society must be committed to national unity, and rule of law. everyone must accept the results of democratic process. everyone must reject dictatorship, sectarianism and the use of bombs to extract political concession. everyone must respect each other and each other's basic human rights. iraqis also deserve security forces that can protect our own from the barbarism of dash. our security forces must be cleansed of corruption while respecting the populations they protect. we are working on improving our soldiers on the military payroll. the government seeks to create

they try to build it unified state in iraq. and we've seen that, apart ever since. that was the effort. take those three and craft them together into a single state. that created difficulties because of the kurdish north. we are still living with that. >> thank you for new-line presentation. i think the lack of instantaneous questions is a reflection of how well you covered the material. let me put the united states back into the equation. do you think if the united states participated in the league it would have made any impact in the mandate system and its downfall. second we are contrasting with what the united states is doing in territories that administered since the philippines. >> guest: that is an interesting question. i have to beg off on the second part of the philippines i thought this was an overwhelming project that if i brought more territories into it it would have been unmanageable. the question about the americans is very interesting. i think it isn't quite right to say the americans were not present in geneva. the americans had an incredibly privil

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hard, painstaking diplomacy, not saber rattling, not tough talk, that ratcheted up the pressure on iraq. with the world unified beside us, iran's economy contracted and remains smaller today than it would otherwise have been. no doubt this are joy played a role in iran's 2018 elections. when the iranian people elected a new government that promised to improve the economy to engage with the world, a window had cracked open. iran came back to the nuclear talks. after a series of negotiations iran agreed with the international community to end interim deal. it rolled back iran's stockpile of 20% enriched uranium and froze the progress of its program so that the united states, china, russia, the united kingdom, germany, france and european union could negotiate a comprehensive deal without the fear that iran might be stalling for time. let me pause here just to remind everybody that win the interim deal was announced, critics, the same critics we are hearing from now, called it a historic mistake. they insisted iran would ignore its obligations, warned the sanctions would unravel, word that

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so there can be unifying features. the most important force in iraq is still there, the distribution of oil revenues by the central government to the provinces, the ministries and so forth, including the kurdish regional government. >> thank you, general. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and general, good to see you again. i also want to echo what senator king said about your comments earlier. we very much appreciate you earlier and what you did, what you've done for the country. i know there's been a lot written on the search -- the surge and that strategy. to me it's an important example of, you have strategy, you have rhetoric, and then you have important action. the president and others announced what we were going to do and then we took action. i think one of the broader strategic failures that we're seeing with all the chaos in the world is that we, in many ways as a country, at the high levels, whether it's the president or the secretary of defense or others, we're talking about things, red lines in syria, bashar al

we're also getting rid of honor posts that -- and reducing the -- iraq's dependence on oil income, and we -- and during this -- we're trying to get benefit from the reduction of the oil. we are trying to unify all of the government and community around it, and our government is seeking forming local fighters and -- who are fighting together against terrorism, and because isis is threatening the whole area, we are working on reinforcing our connection or relationship including saudi arabia -- iran and saudi arabia and all of the regions of the area generally. we're also making reforms in the area on the diplomatic front, and we are acquiring -- we are winning. during the last year we have freed [ inaudible ] and beiji, and tikrit and dur and a lot of other regions, and in freeing tikr tikrit, we involved the security forces of iraq and the tribal forces and the community forces also. tens of thousands of iraqi people are now back in tikrit, about 80% who flee -- who had fleed before they came back after a lot of assistance, who are -- who provided aid to iraqi -- through directly or ind

there is a lot of blame to go on president obama for how we got out of iraq and the mess he has left in the middle east. >> i guess kirsten the contrast what we saw after 9/11 and obviously the country was unified on 9/12 to do something quickly but then to see the inability to get a moderate syrian force or any force to do anything in syria is kind of shocking >> also, because i think part of it was the threat was so down played if you remember how it was down played by president obama that we had basically taken care of this problem. we now find out that it looks like it's possible that the books were being cooked by the intelligence analysis was saying it was a much bigger threat than what we were hearing about. and then somewhere in the -- you know, the where it was getting transmitted up to the white house it was changing into something that was much lesser of a threat which would suggest that the white house was asking for this because it is really not in the intelligence agency's interest to be down playing terror threats. >> and that's interesting. that piece, jawms rosen pre

there is a lot of blame to go on president obama for how we got out of iraq and the mess he has left in the middle east. >> i guess kirsten the contrast what we saw after 9/11 and obviously the country was unified on 9/12 to do something quickly but then to see the inability to get a moderate syrian force or any force to do anything in syria is kind of shocking >> also, because i think part of it was the threat was so down played if you remember how it was down played by president obama that we had basically taken care of this problem. we now find out that it looks like it's possible that the books were being cooked by the intelligence analysis was saying it was a much bigger threat than what we were hearing about. and then somewhere in the -- you know, the where it was getting transmitted up to the white house it was changing into something that was much lesser of a threat which would suggest that the white house was asking for this because it is really not in the intelligence agency's interest to be down playing terror threats. >> and that's interesting. that piece, jawms rosen pre

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we are trying to unify all the government and the community and our government is seeking forming local fighters who are fighting together against terrorism and because isis is threatening the whole area we are working on reinforcing our connection, our relationship including iran and saudi arabia and all of the regions of the area generally. we are also make ingrid forms in the area and on the diplomatic front and we are winning. during the last year we have freed zumar and beijing and so dear and to create and host sasha and a lot of other regions in frame to create we involve the security forces of the iraqi and tribal forces and the community forces also. tens of thousands of iraqi people are now back in tikrit. about 80% who fled before they came back after a lot of assistance who provided aid to iraq directly or indirectly. despite the retributions were low compared to the fears of them. where isis was committing different kinds from tribes against the others. there has been retributions and revenge cases but this has been limited. that's why we consider it to be victory but we st