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Elissa Slotkin: “It's not a lot to ask whether you're a Democrat or…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 08:02

So there's no love lost for Saddam Hussein. That doesn't mean that Americans feel great after we got bogged down for years and years and years in the Iraq war. It's not a lot to ask whether you're a Democrat or Republican for a plan when we're just coming off of 20 years of being bogged down in wars. But the difference between ira, they were absolutely no threat. We absolutely attacked a country that. Nothing to do with 911. Just because we had this idea of planting a democracy in the middle. (08:02–08:11)

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Asserts that it is reasonable to ask for a plan after 20 years of U.S. involvement in wars.

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