06/15/2011
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"In 2001, every Senator voted to go against those who attacked us using Afghanistan as the base."
"I voted, with reluctance, because I believed more troops would help our situation. We added the troops. The violence got worse."
"The President said when he announced his Afghanistan strategy, that he needed those 21,000 troops--now, this is just months ago--to, 'take the fight to the Taliban in the south and the east, and give ..."
"So, I would ask you, Why did the situation get worse in Afghanistan after we sent 21,000 more troops?"