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Barack Obama: As a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed.

On the recordJune 28, 2011
As a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Counterterrorism

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