Richard Lugar actually said...

"We should not say that there is--we should say that we are going to be there for a while."

"In the case of the United States, there hasn't been an attack in 8 years."

"Reportedly, al-Qaeda no longer has a major presence in Afghanistan, although witnesses in our previous hearings have indicated that its reestablishment would be nearly inevitable if a Taliban governme..."

"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."