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On the recordJune 9, 2014
The important thing to do at the very top of this is for everybody to remember why we are in Afghanistan in the first place, and that is it was a beautiful day in September and we were attacked right in the United States of America when we thought we were completely defensible by two oceans, and thousands of Americans lost their lives.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

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Kinzinger recalls the September 11 attacks as the reason for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

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