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Joe Wilson: “What do we say to the mother and father, the wife of the last soldier or marine killed to support a corrupt government…”

On the recordOctober 12, 2011
What do we say to the mother and father, the wife of the last soldier or marine killed to support a corrupt government and a corrupt leader in a war that cannot be won?
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Joe Wilson
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Wilson questions the morality of continuing the war in Afghanistan.

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