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Graham Platner: “We destroyed Iraq and we destroyed Afghanistan and all the…”

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

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It's bound to fail. It's bound to bring an immense amount of violence upon people who in no way, shape or form are deserving it of it. Because, I mean, We destroyed Iraq and we destroyed Afghanistan and all the suffering, all the killing, all the dying, all the displacement, all of it was, was we, we brought that. We, the United States did that. And it is a, and that I'm ashamed of. The anger that I feel is for the people that sent me who are frankly still the same people who are … (41:22–41:38)

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Asserts that the U.S. is responsible for the destruction and suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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