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Ed Markey: “I never contemplated that it would authorize 2.5 million American military personnel to go to Iraq and Afghanistan.”

On the recordDecember 8, 2014
I never contemplated that it would authorize 2.5 million American military personnel to go to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey expresses surprise at the scale of military personnel involved in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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