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On the recordMarch 28, 2017
Well, it is so important. And the American people need to know the city is over a million persons, it is the second largest city in the country of Iraq, and how important it is that it be liberated, and the subjugation and oppression that the people must have faced in the last year, 2 years.
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Joe Wilson
Republican · South Carolina

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Emphasizing the significance of liberating Mosul for its large population and their suffering.

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