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Ted Cruz: “Taking out civilian power plants is a war crime.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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No Man Left Behind Morale Booster, Pentagon Manual Wrecks the Left's Talking Point & Temporary Pr...

Published | Video Starts at 19:54

I think that's why I picked it. But I will say we're getting a lot of pompous Democrats and pompous news reporters, although I repeat myself on TV saying Taking out civilian power plants is a war crime. Yeah. Well, let me read to you from the Pentagon's law of war manual. So the Pentagon has a manual on the law of war. Here's what it says. (19:54–19:59)

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