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Jim Webb: If you shoot the people who do it and blow up their boats, they won't be back.

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
If you shoot the people who do it and blow up their boats, they won't be back.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Senator Webb suggests a straightforward approach to piracy issues.

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