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2024-11-23 13:01:40 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 21243F5C78761F9F90629E7C3B0BDEC2D12EA095B27501D51AE64C31DDC1B666
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This picture does not depict Tom Cotton, but rather a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade after nearly 1,000 gold bars were confiscated from a truck in Kirkuk and returned to the Iraqi Treasury. The photo was taken in 2003, Cotton did not join the military until 2005. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/senator-tom-cotton-gold-pile/ https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2003-05-27/gold-bars-pique-173rd's-interest-at-checkpoint-1906928.html
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