Richard Lugar actually said...

Part of the debate here in the Senate and elsewhere consists of people who say we ought to have something comparable to Iraq, a surge of American forces going after whoever.

Context

Lugar discusses the debate on increasing American military presence in Afghanistan.

10/06/2009

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