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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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