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I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

Rand Paul

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Rand Paul
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 7
Ophthalmologist
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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