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Rob Wittman: “If our current burn rate is $5 billion a month, if it will go to $10 billion a month by next summer...”

On the recordOctober 21, 2009
If our current burn rate is $5 billion a month, if it will go to $10 billion a month by next summer...
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

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Wittman discusses the financial and human costs of military engagement.

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