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On the recordSeptember 8, 2015
Why should Congress agree to any deal that allows one of the major protagonists to have $140 billion more that is clearly going to be used to spread their agenda, their Shia caliphate, in opposition to a Sunni caliphate, in opposition to the Western world agreement to let people live in peace, including the Christians in the Arab and Muslim world?
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Joe Wilson
Republican · South Carolina

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Questioning the rationale behind a deal that funds opposing agendas.

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