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Joe Biden: “It is an outrageous, an outrageous, outrageous law, number one. Number two, we are not in Afghanistan to make the point…”

On the recordApril 6, 2009
It is an outrageous, an outrageous, outrageous law, number one. Number two, we are not in Afghanistan to make the point to see to it that we make everything right in Afghanistan. I am not prepared to send American troops to die for that.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Vice President Biden condemns a law in Afghanistan that allows marital rape and clarifies the limits of U.S. military involvement.

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