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Barack Obama: “We spend billions of dollars a week [in Iraq] that could be…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama's Speech in San Antonio on Change and Unity

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… of them, even while we have asked little and expect nothing from the Iraqi government whose job it is to put their country back together. Of course, a course where We spend billions of dollars a week [in Iraq] that could be used to rebuild our roads and our schools. to care for our veterans and send our to college. It's the same course that continues to divide and isolate America from the world by substituting bluster and bullying for … (05:28–05:36)

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Asserts that billions spent weekly in Iraq could be redirected to domestic infrastructure and education.

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