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Once Upon a Time...: The Progressive Values of "Responsible" Democrats

Once Upon a Time...: The Progressive Values of "Responsible" Democrats: "If you believe the United States has the 'right' to take 'offensive military action against Iran' -- that is, against a nation that does not threaten us now and will not threaten us for years to come, if ever -- and if you believe, in the event we do launch an unprovoked, non-defensive attack on Iran, which is to say, if we commit another monstrous war crime, that it would be nice, but hardly necessary, 'if the rest of the world saw it as a position of last resort'; and"

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