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Pete Buttigieg: “The goodwill gets squandered in the Bush years by invading…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 42:02

American flags left, right, and center. Everybody kind of feels a certain way. We're gonna help each other. We're gonna, like, stand up. But then that The goodwill gets squandered in the Bush years by invading Iraq, which has nothing to do with 911. and a whole bunch of other things that happened. Yeah. I think part of why so many people were on board with the invasion of Iraq is, for one, people didn't know the geographic differences between the countries. (42:02–42:10)

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Asserts that the invasion of Iraq during the Bush administration was unrelated to the 9/11 attacks.

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