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Jim Risch: “I look at this $10 billion a month in a counterinsurgency effort to prop up a government that I believe is corrupt.”

On the recordJune 22, 2011
I look at this $10 billion a month in a counterinsurgency effort to prop up a government that I believe is corrupt.
Said by
Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of U.S. spending on a corrupt Afghan government.

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