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Link: Kissinger Says Victory in Iraq Not Possible

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Kissinger Says Victory in Iraq Is Not Possible


By Brian Knowlton
The New York Times
Sunday 19 November 2006

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/washington/19cnd-policy.html

Washington - Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who regularly advises President Bush on Iraq, said today that a full military victory was no longer possible there. He thus joined a growing number of leading conservatives openly challenging the administration's conduct of the war and positive forecasts for it.

"If you mean, by 'military victory,' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible," Mr. Kissinger told BBC News.

In Washington, a leading Republican supporter of the war, Senator John McCain of Arizona, said American troops in Iraq were "fighting and dying for a failed policy."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/washington/19cnd-policy.html

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