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"If we had controlled the oil like I said we should, we could have prevented the rise of ISIS in Iraq, both by cutting off a major source of funding and through the presence of U.S. forces necessary to safeguard the oil and vital infrastructure products necessary for us to have the oil." — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who advocated seizing Iraq's oil wealth in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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"They see the institution as racist, not the individual. Once you put on the uniform, you're blue, and blue sees black as bad." — Remy Cross, a criminologist at Webster University in St. Louis, who believes that the race of police officers probably does not matter to many people in cities like Milwaukee.
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"I'm trying to get back to my home and rescue my cat." — Jack Miller, 60, to a police officer who set up a roadblock in flooded Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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