On the recordJuly 9, 2007
We just started. He got all the troops there a couple of weeks ago. He asked for, you know, 20,000 troops, and I said, if that's what you need, Commander, that's what you got.
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President Bush defends the troop surge in Iraq, stating that he supports the military's needs for additional forces.
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