"I feel like I need this opportunity to become a U.S. citizen, " he said.

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And I think the Pentagon and the U.S. Military need to be challenged on this directly.

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But in terms of an inquiry, I'm not currently minded that we need to have a U.K.-based inquiry on this -- partly for this reason: I don't need an inquiry to tell me what was a bad decision.

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"I think we need to think about how heavy a military footprint the U.S. ought to have in Afghanistan, " he told the committee.

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"I believe there is no need for Iran to be at war with the U.S. forever, " he said.

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And I think that the U.S. government is worried about the urgency and the need to address some of these challenges right now, particularly with the increase in violence in Afghanistan and the fact that Pakistan seems to have been used as a safe haven for many of these attacks.

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And so they need to shift the core mission of U.S. forces at least temporarily, and when I say temporarily, I'm talking about six months to a year.

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