Sen. Harry Reid Holds a News Teleconference On His Trip to Afghanistan

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Sen. Harry Reid Holds a News Teleconference On His Trip to Afghanistan

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SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HOLDS A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON HIS TRIP TO AFGHANISTAN

AUGUST 6, 2008

SPEAKER: SEN. HARRY REID, D-NEV., SENATE MAJORITY LEADER

[*] REID: I'll go ahead and get started. We -- I have -- with me, I have Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Bill Nelson from Florida. I have Bob Menendez from New Jersey, and Johnny Isakson from Georgia. We left Washington and came to the country of Kyrgyzstan.

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I'm sorry about that.

So, anyway, we left Washington, came to the country of Kyrgyzstan. It's a country that is the most mountainous country in the world, but is a country very important to the United States and what we're doing in Afghanistan. It is the gateway to Afghanistan.

And so we've had the opportunity to me...

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