Joe Manchin actually said...

If you are the largest employer and you are spending more than anybody has ever spent in that country, you would have to be doing something that you would call--define as nation building because you are the only one building anything.

Context

Manchin argues U.S. spending in Afghanistan equates to nation building.

10/18/2011

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