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Kendrick Meek: If I was thinking of the Iraq issue solely as a political issue, it would be let us go to the floor... we have this war…

On the recordJanuary 24, 2007
If I was thinking of the Iraq issue solely as a political issue, it would be let us go to the floor... we have this war going on and we have young men and young women. You have a lot of Reservists that are there that are 40, 50 years old, that are away from their families 15 months at a pop.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida

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Discussing the political implications of the Iraq war and its impact on local and state funding.

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