CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell June 4, 2024 18:42:00
Hundred plus thousand troops to iraq and afghanistan and the overwhelming majority of them did not speak arabic or pashtu so we needed to hire locals to help us, and they weren't just serving as interpreters. they served alongside u.s. diplomats and aid workers and soldiers as engineeris, as helping us rebuild schools, and healthcare clinics and things like that. in iraq, they brought us our food. they interpreted and translated intel that was discovered in caches that would help our soldiers and marines know where there were potential terrorist cells operating. i mean, every single thing that...
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