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Ruben Gallego: “I felt, and I knew that [the Iraq War] was an illegal war.”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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'Trump wants us to go back to 1930s': Sen. Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 08:40

CSD the men I serve with still live with the consequences of the war. And the whole time people were trying to kill me, my friends are getting blown up. I felt, and I knew that [the Iraq War] was an illegal war. It was a war of choice that was led by these men because they wanted to exert their power. They wanted to get their oil out. (08:40–08:43)

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Asserts that the Iraq War was illegal.

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