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Brian Schatz: “The main error was in starting this stupid regime change war…”

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

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This war was reckless and illegal, and it didn't get us anything. It's made things worse.

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The main error was in starting this stupid regime change war in the first place. And that you don't have to be some member of the Foreign Relations Committee or some fancy foreign policy expert or some professor at some school that studies the Middle east to say, hey, you know what? (00:00–00:06)

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Asserts that initiating the regime change war was a primary mistake.

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