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[applause] wed take you to right now, president obama will give an update on the situation in missouri. Erguson, ive been following closely. Our Ongoing Operations in iraq, and the situation in ferguson, missouri. With respect to iraq, we continue to see important progress across different parts of our strategy to support Iraqi Government and combat a threat from the terrorist group isil. First, our military operations are effectively protecting our personnel in iraq. They have successfully pushed back the terrorists. Meanwhile, we have provided arms and assistance to iraqi forces, it including the kurdish fighters on the front lines. Today, with our support to my the iraqi and Kurdish Forces took a major step forward by recapturing the largest dam in iraq near the city of mosul. It fell under terrorist control earlier month and is vital to our objective of protecting americans in iraq. If that dam was breached to make could have proven catastrophic with floods that wouldve threatened
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