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Bernie Sanders: “War in Iraq, which I voted against when I was in Congress…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:40

… war and more when they came back home sleeping out on the streets of this country. All right, that war was based on a lie. Based on a lie. The War in Iraq, which I voted against when I was in Congress based on a lie. The war in Iran. Oh, that. Iran is going to have a nuclear weapon tomorrow and they're going to attack the United States based on a lie. (06:40–06:47)

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Asserts that the Iraq War was based on a lie and that Bernie Sanders voted against it.

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