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Lindsey Graham: Bottom line is it's going to be tough, it's going to be difficult, in many ways harder than Iraq.

On the recordJanuary 26, 2009
Bottom line is it's going to be tough, it's going to be difficult, in many ways harder than Iraq.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham acknowledges the challenges ahead in Afghanistan compared to Iraq.

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