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Dick Lugar: We started in Afghanistan because we thought that's where al-Qaeda was, and we wanted to disrupt any further activity…

On the recordJuly 13, 2010
We started in Afghanistan because we thought that's where al-Qaeda was, and we wanted to disrupt any further activity that might threaten us in the United States of America.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar discusses the origins of the war in Afghanistan related to al-Qaeda.

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