The dirty little secret is that we don't have enough troops. We need to enlarge the size of the Army and the Marine Corps.
John McCain: “The dirty little secret is that we don't have enough troops. We need to enlarge the size of the Army and the Marine…”
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Senator McCain argues for increasing troop levels in Iraq.
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