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Lindsey Graham: “Can you tell the people back here that the likelihood of their friends and family being killed is going up greatly if…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2011
Can you tell the people back here that the likelihood of their friends and family being killed is going up greatly if there are no American forces up there policing that problem?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Graham questions the safety of people in Iraq without U.S. forces present.

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