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Bernie Sanders: “This was a totally unnecessary war provoked by Netanyahu and Trump.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Absolutely, it is. And it just, you know, it infuriates me. Yes, sir. This was a war. You know, sometimes you get attacked, you have to respond, yes, This was a totally unnecessary war provoked by Netanyahu and Trump. And the results have been that we're gonna end up spending many hundreds of billions of dollars that you go to healthcare, not to war. Thousands of civilians have been killed unnecessarily. (00:43–00:52)

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Asserts that a specific war was unnecessary and provoked by Netanyahu and Trump.

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