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Dick Lugar: I was cautious about calling for Bashar al-Assad to go not because I do not want him to go, but because that then…

On the recordApril 18, 2012
I was cautious about calling for Bashar al-Assad to go not because I do not want him to go, but because that then invites the question of 'What are you doing?'
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar emphasizes the complexities of calling for regime change in Syria.

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