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Jim Webb: “I have to express my agreement with Senator Lugar's comment that if we were doing a military model right now, I don't…”

On the recordJune 22, 2011
I have to express my agreement with Senator Lugar's comment that if we were doing a military model right now, I don't think any of us would be sitting up here saying, 'Oh, it would be 100,000 troops and spending $120 billion a year in Afghanistan.'
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Webb reflects on military strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan.

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