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On the recordDecember 9, 2014
the flexibility that we have seen recently in the administration is more borne out of events in Iraq than events and facts on the ground in Afghanistan.
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Perry critiques the administration's troop level adjustments as influenced by Iraq rather than Afghanistan's situation.

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