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Barack Obama: Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the…

On the recordApril 22, 2012
Preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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