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Jim Inhofe: I don't know any other way we are going to be able to bring our troops back. Clearly, the President has us over a…

On the recordJuly 14, 1997
I don't know any other way we are going to be able to bring our troops back. Clearly, the President has us over a political barrel right now because any time our troops get out of there--I don't care if it is tomorrow, if it is June 30, 1998, or if it is 10 years from now-- the fighting will start again, and anyone with any common sense, with any knowledge of history, knows it has happened that way, and it is going to continue to happen that way. And so the question is do you do it sooner or later.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma

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Discussing the implications of U.S. troop withdrawal from Bosnia during a Senate floor debate.

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