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2024-11-24 02:04:27 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 74C6ADC067FF9DA89D703AD491820FE004504FD8775FDA9C5988A9DD101BAC52
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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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