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Marco Rubio: “At the end of all this engagement, if he survives we are going to have on our hands a potentially emboldened, definitely…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2011
At the end of all this engagement, if he survives we are going to have on our hands a potentially emboldened, definitely angry dictator.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio concludes that a surviving Qadhafi poses a significant threat.

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