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Bob Corker: You can't grow a national army of 400,000, including national police, without people who are willing to support that…

On the recordDecember 2, 2009
You can't grow a national army of 400,000, including national police, without people who are willing to support that concept.
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker highlights the challenges in building a national army in Afghanistan without local support.

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