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Charles Rangel: “The president recently has said that he's going to extend the war, escalate the war by some 21,000 people, volunteers.…”

On the recordJanuary 10, 2007
The president recently has said that he's going to extend the war, escalate the war by some 21,000 people, volunteers. Where's he going to get them from?
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Charles Rangel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Rangel questions the feasibility of recruiting additional volunteers for the war.

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