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Now that former colleague Lee Hamilton has recommended shifting U.S. forces from a fighting to a training role in Iraq, Indiana's other foreign-policy voice, Sen. Richard Lugar, is speaking out on the Iraq Study Group report.
Lugar is unsure whether the elected Iraqi government has what it takes to lead a nation of disparate factions, religious sects, ethnic groups, militias and tribes. But because the Middle East will continue to remain a dangerous place, one possibility is that U.S. troops be deployed elsewhere in the region, Lugar suggested.See the full content of this document
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Lugar Questions Iraqi Stability
Unlike with Vietnam, "in Iraq the basic question is, do the majority of Iraqis want to be Iraqis? In other words, there really has never been the same sense ...
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