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Tulsi Gabbard: “Do you think that the very closely and intertwined relationship between the Shia government in Baghdad and Iran can be…”

On the recordSeptember 20, 2016
Do you think that the very closely and intertwined relationship between the Shia government in Baghdad and Iran can be so easily supplanted by our 5,000 troops on the ground in our engagement there?
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Tulsi Gabbard
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Gabbard questions the effectiveness of U.S. troops in changing Iraq's relationship with Iran.

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