I think the major disagreements of the early part of the year -- to go to war or not to go to war -- that's over, ... What we have been debating the last several weeks is how best to create the peace -- not whether to go to war or not -- and how best to create a new government in Iraq that will be representative of its people and live in peace with its neighbors. I think we are all now agreed to that.
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