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Can You Tell How Lawmakers Voted On Obama's ISIS War? Probably Not (VIDEO)

Can You Tell How Lawmakers Voted On Obama's ISIS War? Probably Not (VIDEO)
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Senior Congressional Reporter, HuffPost

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WASHINGTON -- What happens when members of Congress have to take tough votes on war and national security?

They say confusing things.

How confusing? "Orwellian" doesn't quite capture it. "Wonderland" might be closer.

To get a better sense, HuffPost put together a video quiz showcasing 13 lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans. Follow along and see if you can guess whether or not these lawmakers voted in the way their words would suggest -- or if perhaps they were just throwing out some metaphorical countermeasures designed to cover their flanks and disguise whether they support President Barack Obama and his war on Islamic State militants.

Watch it above, and good luck.

Michael McAuliff covers Congress and politics for The Huffington Post. Talk to him on Facebook.

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Syria War In August
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Syrians walk around the wreckage of buildings after a reported barrel bomb strike from regime forces on the Maadi neighborhood, an opposition controlled area in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria on August 14, 2014. (credit:(Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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A civil defense team rescues people wounded after the Syrian army reportedly launched a barrel bomb attack in Aleppo, Syria on 10 August, 2014. (credit:(Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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Smoke rises following a reported barrel bomb attack from Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo, on August 14, 2014. (credit:(ZEIN AL-RIFAI/AFP/Getty Images))
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Syrians inspect the rubble of the destroyed buildings after Syrian regime helicopters reportedly struck the al-Shaar area of Aleppo on August 13, 2014. (credit:(Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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Search and rescue team members accompany local residents after a reported Syrian regime attack on August 11, 2014 in the Maadi neighborhood, an opposition-controlled area of Aleppo. (credit:(Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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A Syrian woman weeps as search and rescue team members accompany local residents after bombings on August 11, 2014 in the Maadi neighborhood, an opposition-controlled area of Aleppo. (credit:(Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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A Syrian man cries as he sits on the rubble of a building following a reported barrel-bomb attack from government forces on August 11, 2014 in Aleppo. (credit:(BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images))
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An opposition group member is seen as search and rescue teams look for the wounded and dead in the Qadi Askar district of Aleppo, Syria on August 10, 2014. (credit: (Salih Mahmud Leyla/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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The Banqusa Mosque, built in the Mamluk period in 1386 AD, was reportedly destroyed by air strikes from regime forces in Aleppo on August 8, 2014. (credit:(Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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A man helps a woman from an ambulance after she was injured during a helicopter attack on the Hanano neighborhood of Aleppo on August 9, 2014. (credit:(ZEIN AL-RIFAI/AFP/Getty Images))
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Members of Syrian Islamic Front fight pictured as they fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham in Aleppo, August 5, 2014. (credit:(Ahmed Muhamed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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A member of the Syrian Islamic Front watches from a lookout post in Aleppo for activity from government forces on August 2, 2014. (credit:(Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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Syrian Islamic Front members check their machine gun bullets in Aleppo on August 2, 2014. (credit:(Ahmed Muhammed Ali/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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A wounded man reacts as he lies on the ground at a makeshift hospital after reported shelling from Syrian government forces in Douma, northeast of Damascus, on August 3, 2014. (credit:(ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images))
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Free Syrian Army members shoot at regime forces with sniper rifles through holes of building walls in the Cobar neighborhood of eastern Aleppo on August 1, 2014. (credit:(Yusuf Bustani/Anadolu Agency/Getty mages))
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Members of the Syrian opposition group Mujahidin Brigade carry Grad rockets in the Dahiyet al-Asad district of Aleppo on August 2, 2014. (credit:(Ahmed Hasan Ubeyd/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images))
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