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On the recordFebruary 11, 2015
When you warned, on February 12 of last year, that our military is on a path where the force may become, 'so degraded and so unready that it would be immoral to use force.'
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin references General Dempsey's warning about military readiness.

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