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Roscoe Bartlett: “Are we going to continue to fight these discretionary wars?”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
Are we going to continue to fight these discretionary wars?
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Roscoe Bartlett
Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Bartlett questions the necessity of ongoing discretionary wars.

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