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Pat Ryan: Then all of a sudden we are going to have a pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan before 10 years is over, this money is all…

On the recordFebruary 14, 2012
Then all of a sudden we are going to have a pullout from Iraq and Afghanistan before 10 years is over, this money is all of a sudden a spending cut, it is savings?
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan critiques the assumption of savings from military pullouts.

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