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Rand Paul: “Are you prepared to lose 4,000 lives if it takes it to get Mosul back?”

On the recordJune 11, 2014
Are you prepared to lose 4,000 lives if it takes it to get Mosul back?
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the cost of military intervention in Iraq.

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