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Brad Sherman: “We foolishly and prematurely turned the government over to native governments that were certainly not pro-American.”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
We foolishly and prematurely turned the government over to native governments that were certainly not pro-American.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman argues against the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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