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2024-11-23 19:13:37 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 264892F006C64AC71558389DADEFAF2F3D7FBD7140310DF72C7EA794B23BD42C
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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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