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Dick Lugar: Part of the debate here in the Senate and elsewhere consists of people who say we ought to have something comparable to…

On the recordOctober 6, 2009
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.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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

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