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Colin Powell: “What I did say to him, once you break it, you`re going to own it. And we`re going to be responsible for 26 million…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2021
What I did say to him, once you break it, you`re going to own it. And we`re going to be responsible for 26 million people standing there looking at us.
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Colin Powell
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Colin Powell discusses the implications of military intervention and the responsibilities that come with it.

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