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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.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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

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