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Tim Kaine: “It would be foolishness of the highest order for the US to…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Tim Kaine Discusses US-Iran Tensions and War Powers Resolution

Published | Video Starts at 00:59

Do you feel like things are moving and possibly irreversibly so? Major? Not irreversibly. I mean, I'm going to begin and put my cards on the table. It would be foolishness of the highest order for the US to be involved in a war with Iran. We should not. When I got elected to the Senate in 2012, having lived through in Virginia, a very military state, the effects of Iraq and Afghanistan on thousands of … (00:59–01:05)

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Asserts that US involvement in a war with Iran would be extremely unwise.

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