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Derrick Van Orden: “We have a proven track record of training people that we…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Published | Video Starts at 02:11

Correct. Everyone here, I think everyone, at least over here, has done joint combined exercise for training. Sometimes we would call that training tomorrow's enemies today. And We have a proven track record of training people that we should not. Everything from the School of Americas in the 70s and, you know, trained the Taliban, armed them, equipped them, did all this stuff. We've created own enemies. (02:11–02:15)

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