Are you prepared to lose 4,000 lives if it takes it to get Mosul back?
Rand Paul: “Are you prepared to lose 4,000 lives if it takes it to get Mosul back?”
On the recordJune 11, 2014
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Questioning the cost of military intervention in Iraq.
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