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John Rice Carter: “When I went back home this past month, all over my district the main thing I heard from the people on Iraq, get the…”

On the recordSeptember 4, 2007
When I went back home this past month, all over my district the main thing I heard from the people on Iraq, get the politics out of it and just tell us the truth of what you know and let us try to figure it all out together, and why don't we try to figure this out together instead of thinking about who is going to win the next election or who is going to get the next advantage in the political process. I kept hearing that over and over.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia

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Discussing his observations from a recent trip to Iraq and constituents' desire for honesty in political discourse.

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