Manchin on leaving Afghanistan: The quicker the better

Video Transcript: So you're favoring. Getting out of here the quicker the better. The quicker than the quicker the better. Should we leave a residual force there of some kind Bob I would think the basic I've been there twice now and different as a governor. And as US senator and I believe we have some strategic especially the warm air force base. That's a -- tremendous opportunity each teaching point for us to launch from protect our troops for our special forces to operate out of and I would defer to -- to get to the experts and professionals on that but I can see that we're going to have this war on terror. Not just from our generation but from our children's and grandchildren's. So we have to be able to strike at terror before it strikes us.

Manchin on leaving Afghanistan: The quicker the better

January 13, 2013 9:46 AM

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., praises President Barack Obama's announcement that the U.S. is leaving Afghanistan - perhaps faster than expected.

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