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On the recordFebruary 24, 2015
I thought your answer to Senator Kaine's question was definitive in that you worry, as I know the President does, that a large-scale deployment of troops could become recruiting fodder for extremists as our presence in Iraq did over the 10 years.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy expresses concern about troop deployment leading to extremist recruitment.

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