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On the recordJanuary 23, 2007
I personally cannot see any element of a strategy of a commitment that's been going on for more than 4 years that can justify doing this to the soldiers and the Army.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Questioning the justification for extended deployments.

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