Cenk Uygur
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Tom Cotton Thinks The Iraq War Was Justified
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May 23, 2015
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8:43Now PlayingSeveral prominent Republicans have recently backed off from full support of the Iraq war, which is certainly a change of pace from just a few years ago. Do not get tricked into believing that all Republicans no longer support that disastrous war.
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“Tom Cotton, the Iraq war veteran from Arkansas turned Republican senator, has a message to fellow soldiers: 'We should not be ashamed of the war we conducted in Iraq.'
Leading Republicans are sticking by the Iraq war, declining to follow the Democrats into full retreat and regret.
Cotton, while conceding that there are lessons to be learned from the conflict and that it might have been handled differently in retrospect, maintains that President George W. Bush made the best decision he could at the time based on the available intelligence about Saddam Hussein's presumed stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.”
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