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Tom Cole: “Obama takes out Muammar Gaddafi.”

Featuring: Tom Cole, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 21:29

All of that stuff is sitting in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, right now, over 60 tons of it. And then once we got it, a few years later, Obama takes out Muammar Gaddafi. Would we have done that if they'd had WMDs? And if you don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians drew that lesson. So that war at the time was a huge mistake. (21:29–21:33)

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Asserts that President Obama was responsible for the removal of Muammar Gaddafi.

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