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Barack Obama: “If another nation cannot or will not take action, we will”

On the recordApril 29, 2012
If another nation cannot or will not take action, we will
Said by
Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John O. Brennan

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