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Lindsey Graham: “I want to build on that just to make sure we understand about a potential attack on a Navy base here at home. No one is…”

On the recordNovember 29, 2012
I want to build on that just to make sure we understand about a potential attack on a Navy base here at home. No one is suggesting the military could not use force against an al-Qaida attack here at home. The Hamdi case was an American citizen captured in Afghanistan. I hope we are not trying to create a picture that somehow America is a place where our own military cannot fire a shot in defense of their ships or our country. Let's say we have some ships up there in Virginia and we have a boatload of al-Qaida types trying to ram the ship. Does the Senator agree with me that our military can use force to defend us here at home against al-Qaida?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Nov 29, 2012

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