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Barack Obama: “America's reputation suffers when we are perceived as idle in the face of mass atrocities and genocide.”

On the recordApril 22, 2012
America's reputation suffers when we are perceived as idle in the face of mass atrocities and genocide.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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