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Brian Schatz: “After the Iraq war, my goodness, I thought there was going…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Schatz Condemns Trump's War Of Choice Against Iran

Published | Video Starts at 09:08

We'll get a client state. Not so easy in Iran. Not so easy in Iran. And these things have a terrible tendency to metastasize. They really do. And After the Iraq war, my goodness, I thought there was going to be bipartisan consensus that we are not going to go into a war of choice again. Congress has a duty not just to check a reckless president, but also to represent the will of the people. And the American people, left, right and center, do not want another regime change war in the Middle East. (09:08–09:20)

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Asserts there was an expectation of bipartisan agreement to avoid wars of choice post-Iraq war.

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