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Tom Cole: “The United States was able to get Libya when Muammar Gaddafi…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 21:10

If you're the Ukrainians, you got to be looking back on that as one of the classic great mistakes that you made and consequently other people have made that. I mean, I'll give you an example. You know, another example of this was The United States was able to get Libya when Muammar Gaddafi was planning to, after the invasion of Iraq, to turn over all its weapons of mass destruction. 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. (21:10–21:22)

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Asserts that Libya turned over all its weapons of mass destruction after the Iraq invasion.

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