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Colin Allred: “There was no discussion here or no laying out of the goals…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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Inside Texas Politics | Full Interview on Congressional District 33 runoff with Colin Allred

Published | Video Starts at 08:15

… President Bush did that before going into Iraq, which I disagreed with and think was, you know, a foreign policy mistake, clearly. But that that discussion was still had, and There was no discussion here or no laying out of the goals and the plans and the reasons for why we're going to war with a country with 90 million people that's the size of Western Europe. and that cannot be won by just airstrikes. We. We can. The United States military and a lot of our North Texas residents have served or are serving, and I'm so proud of them. (08:15–08:25)

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Asserts that there was no discussion or plan laid out for the war with Iran.

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