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On the recordMarch 23, 2004
By invading Iraq, the president of the United States has greatly undermined the war on terrorism.

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Clarke criticizes President Bush's decision to invade Iraq, claiming it weakened the fight against terrorism.

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My view was that this administration, while it listened to me, didn't either believe me that there was an urgent problem or was unprepared to act as though there were an urgent problem.

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We should have never gone in in the first place. The situation we face now is directly because we went in.

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