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Jim Risch: “I really question whether you're going to have the same security situation in Afghanistan that you have in Iraq right…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2009
I really question whether you're going to have the same security situation in Afghanistan that you have in Iraq right now.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Senator Risch doubts security in Afghanistan will match that of Iraq by July 2011.

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