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Paul Begala: “The president is the commander in chief of the military. If he believes, as he says, that discriminating against…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2010
The president is the commander in chief of the military. If he believes, as he says, that discriminating against, kicking 14,000 men and women who are qualified and serving honorably, 14,000, kicking them out, that hurts his military, he has obligation as commander in chief to issue a stop-loss order.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas

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Begala argues that President Obama should issue a stop-loss order to protect service members.

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