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Adam Kinzinger: “I saw, frankly, the bravest political move I think in 50 years, the surge in Iraq.”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
I saw, frankly, the bravest political move I think in 50 years, the surge in Iraq.
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Adam Kinzinger
Republican · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Kinzinger praises the Iraq surge as a courageous political decision.

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