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26:57Now PlayingSidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz talk with James Mann, foreign policy expert, author of The Rise of the Vulcans, about how both presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush went to the UN and the Congress for approval of the Gulf War and Iraq War, in stark contrast to Trump in his Iran War.
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