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Mark Kelly: “There was no coherent strategy or plan. Then it became about…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Is Nuking Iran an "Illegal Order?" - with Sen. Mark Kelly

Published | Video Starts at 24:34

Iraq did not go well for three. Afghanistan, over four. Over four. Right. It does not go well. Many. So that was a flawed approach and a flawed goal. So, yeah, There was no coherent strategy or plan. Then it became about nuclear weapons, which, by the way, they said last summer they obliterated them. And I immediately said, based on what I know about doing this, I've dropped a lot of bombs on things. Really hard to completely destroy stuff. It's really challenging. (24:34–24:44)

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Asserts that there was no coherent strategy or plan regarding nuclear weapons, which were claimed to be obliterated last summer.

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