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Joe Biden: “15 months into the surge, we've gone from drowning to treading water. We're still spending $3 billion every week and…”

On the recordApril 7, 2008
15 months into the surge, we've gone from drowning to treading water. We're still spending $3 billion every week and we're still losing, thank God, it's less, but 30 to 40 American lives every month. We can't keep treading water without exhausting ourselves. But that's what the president seems to be asking us to do.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Joe Biden critiques the current state of the Iraq war and the financial and human costs involved.

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