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Tim Kaine: “These carrier strike groups that are being sent over, one…”

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

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If You Make Diplomacy Impossible, You Make War Inevitable

Published | Video Starts at 02:10

Well, it's happened and it's underway. But I don't want more Virginians to be deployed in an illegal and an unwise war. These carrier strike groups that are being sent over, one after the next, hundreds and then thousands, include an awful lot of Virginians. And I've got their families asking me, why are we doing this? What's the rationale. When are the, when are the sailors on the Ford going to come home? (02:10–02:18)

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Asserts that many Virginians are part of the carrier strike groups being deployed.

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