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Joe Lieberman: “Is it fair to say that if you are confirmed as Secretary of Defense, that the goal that you see is to turn…”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2011
Is it fair to say that if you are confirmed as Secretary of Defense, that the goal that you see is to turn responsibility for security of Afghanistan over to the Afghans at the end of 2014 and not to jeopardize our capacity to do that before then?
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman questions the goal of transferring security responsibility in Afghanistan by 2014.

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