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John Kerry argued that it doesn't really make a difference if we call U.S. action against ISIS a "war." He criticized the "tortured debate" this morning on CBS:

"Mr. Secretary, thank you so much," said CBS host Bob Schieffer. "Can I clear up one thing first. This week you went to some lengths to say you wouldn't call this a war, but yet at the Pentagon and at the State Department even they were saying we are at war with ISIS. Are we at war?"

Kerry: "But in terms of al Qaeda, which we have used the word war with, yeah, we're at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates. And in the same context, if you want to use it, yes, we're at war with ISIL in that sense.

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