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On the recordFebruary 27, 2012
I believe history will show that our ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq were naive and enormously wasteful.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy critiques U.S. military ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq as misguided and costly.

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