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Jim Risch: “You just don't have the country itself having the willpower, the political willpower, to join us in that.”

On the recordMay 11, 2009
You just don't have the country itself having the willpower, the political willpower, to join us in that.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Senator Risch comments on Afghanistan's lack of political will.

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