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Jim Webb: “We should, I think, as U.S. policy, not be dependent on any individual or group, however benign, on the development of…”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2009
We should, I think, as U.S. policy, not be dependent on any individual or group, however benign, on the development of our foreign policy.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Emphasizing independence in U.S. foreign policy development.

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