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Obama Announces ISIS AUMF (Full Speech)

By JM Rieger

Posted June 30, 2015 at 12:30pm

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President Barack Obama laid out his administration’s Authorization for Use of Military Force against the Islamic State terror group at a news conference from the White House on Wednesday.

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