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Tim Kaine: “Most now agree 25 years later [the Iraq War] was a massive…”

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

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That was not true. But those were put on the table before a vote in Congress to engage in a war that Most now agree 25 years later [the Iraq War] was a massive, massive mistake. And so I come from a state that lost a lot of people in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam. (01:47–01:52)

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Asserts that the Iraq War is widely regarded as a significant error.

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