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Jesse Jackson: “There is a real surge in this convention to come out of the war on Iraq because money spent there, in fact, should be…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2004
There is a real surge in this convention to come out of the war on Iraq because money spent there, in fact, should be reinvested here.
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Jesse Jackson

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Jackson discusses the shift in focus at the convention towards addressing the war in Iraq and its impact on domestic issues.

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