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Joe Kent: “We were lied to to get us into Iraq.”

Featuring: Joe Kent, Far-right, America First | Former Candidate, U.S. House Washington, District 3

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Published | Video Starts at 1:10:58

But considering all that I've seen, the conclusions that I've reached, I feel like I'm here for a reason and something I think probably on my third or fourth deployment, as I was realizing that We were lied to to get us into Iraq. and that we had a whole mess that we now had to clean up and how much it mirrored and echoed Vietnam. (1:10:58–1:11:01)

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Asserts that the Iraq War was initiated based on false pretenses.

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