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Mazie Hirono Questions Obama on Afghanistan

by Jacob Shafer

December 10, 2009

Appropriately focused Your head is turned in the right direction, but your brain is coming up with the wrong ideas.

Usage: “[President Obama] appropriately focused on why we are in Afghanistan, as it was the epicenter of the 9/11 attack on America….[But] I do have concerns about what we can realistically achieve with 30,000 additional troops.”

- Hawaii Rep. Mazie Hirono, a Democrat, quoted in a December 7 Gannett dispatch