Patrick Leahy actually said...

I think history will show, and this was before your time as Secretary, that our ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq were naive and enormously wasteful.

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

02/27/2012

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if law enforcement is appropriate and prosecution is appropriate, Chairman Leahy wishes very much to see that that takes place

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They have got to be stopped. And they have to be stopped.

I urge the Committee to defer this legislation pending further study and consideration.