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On the recordMarch 11, 2014
I don't think we should forget what happened in 2001. We went into Afghanistan by a virtually unanimous vote of this Congress.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker reminds of the bipartisan support for the Afghanistan invasion post-9/11.

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