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Jim Risch: Why is it necessary that we as a matter of American foreign policy dictate that you must go?

On the recordJuly 31, 2012
Why is it necessary that we as a matter of American foreign policy dictate that you must go?
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Questions U.S. intervention in foreign leadership changes.

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