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Joe Kent: “Without Israel's influence, would all of this have happened?…”

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

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ISIS gets out of control and we have to deploy back to Iraq, back to Syria, to put out essentially the brush fire that was that we created. And so that's why I put all of those together. Because again, Without Israel's influence, would all of this have happened? Would the Iraq war have happened? Maybe. But they heavily lobbied for it. I mean, Benjamin Netanyahu, you can pull up tapes on YouTube like the guy was lobbying heavily back in 2002 for us to do regime change in Iraq. (1:21:48–1:21:57)

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