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On the recordDecember 12, 2005
I'll tell you what I say, Heidi, to an answer to that, the president confuses terrorism with insurgency. Terrorism is what we have in Afghanistan. Terrorism is what we had in The Towers, in London, in Spain. This is an insurgency.
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John Murtha
Pennsylvania

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Murtha discusses the distinction between terrorism and insurgency in relation to the situation in Iraq.

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