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Lindsey Graham: “Would that not be kind of crazy to exempt the homeland, the biggest prize for the terrorist to say for some reason the…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2013
Would that not be kind of crazy to exempt the homeland, the biggest prize for the terrorist to say for some reason the military cannot defend America here in an appropriate circumstance?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham questions the logic of exempting the homeland from military defense.

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