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Graham Platner: “I wish to God someone in 2006 had decided that funding the…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Published | Video Starts at 29:29

I said this to someone yesterday, and the question was, well, what kind of message does that send to, like, the troops? And I would be like, brother, I was the troops. I was in the infantry. And I wish to God someone in 2006 had decided that funding the war in Iraq was stupid. So I didn't have to fight in Ramadi, but instead we had people like Janet Mills and others out there saying, let's go. Let's go in Iraq. We gotta find it. (29:29–29:36)

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Implies that funding the Iraq War in 2006 was a mistake.

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