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Graham Platner: “We were at the government center in downtown [Ramadi], and…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 31:37

And that was like a totally different. That was the middle of the civil war. Yeah. And that was Ramadi in 06 was A. The worst of the worst. And We were at the government center in downtown [Ramadi], and we just lived there. You know, everybody else came and rotated through and, you know, journalists would come and the brass would come, and they'd all come down because they all wanted to see the government center, because that's, like, where all the fighting was. (31:37–31:42)

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