Hillary Clinton: U.S. Military Assistance to Iraqi Government Must Have Specific Conditions
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.
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