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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.
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Commenting on the Iraq War in an unspecified BBC interview on 19 November 2006
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Quoted in Panja, Tariq (2006-11-20). "Kissinger: Iraq military win impossible". Associated Press (via Yahoo! News). Retrieved on 2006-11-20. 

 

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