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Tulsi Gabbard Addresses Hawaiʻi Democrats at 2018 State Convention in Waikoloa

Published | Video Starts at 09:06

It is for them that I fight in Congress to stop war hawks from both parties who just last week tucked A hidden provision in the big defense bill authorizes the United States to go to war with Iran. a provision that had no debate, sidestep Congress constitutional responsibility to declare war, shutting out any input from the American people and providing after the fact, license to interventionist wars … (09:06–09:16)

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Asserts that a provision in the defense bill allows the U.S. to go to war with Iran.

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