SENATE DEMOCRATS BEGIN IRAQ HEARINGS
Foreign policy specialist Michael O'Hanlon discusses the situation in Iraq during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing about problems in Iraq on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 10, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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