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On the recordSeptember 22, 2003
Leading up to the invasion of Iraq, the administration officials carefully fashioned an implied link between 9/11 and Iraq.
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Robert C. Byrd

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Senator Byrd discusses the administration's messaging before the Iraq invasion.

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Jun 2, 2004

So there's--there will not be a cutback in the R&R leave for our troops in Iraq?

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Feb 16, 2005

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

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Sep 21, 2004

The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.

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Sep 21, 2004

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.

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