Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.
We have a failed state in Syria.
We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
Iraq is a country I came to know well and the place where I spent some of the most consequential years of my life.
Why is Iraq so easy to harm and so hard to help?
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
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