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Brian Jones: “We will be debating this probably in 2015 or 2016. If I am not here, somebody else will be, because that is how long we…”

On the recordMarch 17, 2011
We will be debating this probably in 2015 or 2016. If I am not here, somebody else will be, because that is how long we are going to be there. This general that served in the Marine Corps that has advised me for 11 months, back in November I asked: ``What do you think about 4 more years?'' I am just going to read part of his email: ``I do not believe that 40 more years would guarantee victory, whatever that is; so 4 will do nothing. The war is costing money and lives, all in short supply.'' I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Duncan).
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Brian Jones
Republican · California
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Mar 17, 2011

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