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Carl Levin: “It's very hard to sustain what has increasingly become an unpopular war--because we believe we need to do it if we're…”

On the recordJune 22, 2011
It's very hard to sustain what has increasingly become an unpopular war--because we believe we need to do it if we're ever going to stabilize that part of the world and prevent terrorism from growing.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin discusses the challenges of maintaining support for the war effort.

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