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Lindsey Graham: If it becomes unstable and ungoverned, it opens the area, potentially, for terrorists, in order to allow Iraq to become…

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
If it becomes unstable and ungoverned, it opens the area, potentially, for terrorists, in order to allow Iraq to become a place where terrorism could be exported.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham warns about the risks of instability in Iraq leading to terrorism.

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