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Press Briefing by Meghan O'Sullivan, Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan 09/19/06 (Topic: Iraq)
— Tuesday, September 19, 2006 — Q Can you elaborate on this point that the United States is going to support the government of Iraq as long as it's making the tough decisions? Can you explain that? I mean, it sounds like conditional love to me. (Laughter.) I mean, what's -- MS. O'SULLIVAN: Actually, the President had a very similar theme in his comments today in the speech. Q I know -- curious. MS. O'SULLIVAN: And there was -- I'm trying to think of the exact -- Q Can you explain what he means, though? MS. O'SULLIVAN: Sure. And I'll try to shed some light on that. I'm just going back to another speech that he gave -- I think August 31st. Anyway, that's something that has been in a lot of the President's comments. And I think it reflects the reality that the Iraqis have a lot of difficult decisions to do, these are hard decision to make, and that we need to both encourage and urge them to take on these decisions, because we look at something -- we look at the security situation and recognize that part of this has a security solution, but a security solution won't be the whole solution. It's got to be a political one, as well, it has to be an economic one, as well. And the issues that I described -- or I just listed very quickly, they're very political issues, and these are the issues that the leaders need to come together and figure out how -- and this, I'm actually characterizing President Talabani's comments -- how Iraqi leaders in communities are going to share the power and the resources of their country. White House Press Corps | Press Briefing | Meghan O'Sullivan | News Media | Bush Administration | Iraq | President Talabani
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