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John McCain: The cause of it was Islamists who use these videos in order to inflame these people, in order to attack America.

On the recordSeptember 18, 2012
The cause of it was Islamists who use these videos in order to inflame these people, in order to attack America.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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McCain asserts that the real cause of the Benghazi attack was radical Islamists, not the anti-Muslim video.

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