John McCain actually said...

I see it as a newly-elected government that is having, obviously, the growing pains that any government would have that's never -- in a country that's never had any kind of democratic government before.

Context

John McCain comments on the challenges faced by the newly-elected Libyan government and the context of its democratic transition.

09/11/2012

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