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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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