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On the recordJune 17, 2014
The second part of the announcement, though, where artificially we are deciding that you are going to step down over the next 2 years to zero is something that is unacceptable.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio criticizes the planned reduction of troops to zero in Afghanistan.

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