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Jim Risch: “The President has not made the case that the Libya intervention is in the vital interests of the United States.”

On the recordApril 5, 2011
The President has not made the case that the Libya intervention is in the vital interests of the United States.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Critique of the President's justification for military intervention in Libya.

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