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Lindsey Graham: “But, somebody's going to have to take Mosul back, right? And we want it to be Iraqis.”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
But, somebody's going to have to take Mosul back, right? And we want it to be Iraqis.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham stresses the importance of Iraqi forces reclaiming Mosul.

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