No, with all due respect, well, if you want to fight the war by shortchanging the troops in order that you can have your rhetorical answers on that, fine. I will be happy to yield for a simple discourse, but every time you start that rhetoric that has put us into a $2.4 trillion hole in 4 years.
Addressing concerns about funding for troops during a debate on military spending.
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