John Kerry: “This is Crunch Time for Iraq”

Speaking to reporters today at a press conference in Baghdad's Green Zone, John Kerry said "2006 will be "crunch time" for Iraq's new government.

"This is crunch time for everything we've invested and for everything they've invested," Kerry told reporters in Baghdad's Green Zone, adding later: "I'm confident that, providing the government makes the choices that are available to it, provided we continue to leverage that, that we will be in a position to see very significant numbers of forces return [home] over the course of this year."

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