I look at this $10 billion a month in a counterinsurgency effort to prop up a government that I believe is corrupt.
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
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Criticism of U.S. spending on a corrupt Afghan government.
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