On the recordMarch 24, 2004
I think the point is precisely made. I think it is exactly right. It shows that this administration was willing to take action. The kind of fine point I want to put on it was in addition to all of those things, the legal rationale for the war was their violation of the U.N. resolutions. And in point of fact, those resolutions said that if Saddam Hussein and Iraq did not comply with the U.N. resolutions, then the United Nations and the world would be justified in taking whatever steps were necessary, including force, to enforce the resolutions. And that was the legal basis for the war, and I think that is an important point to understand. But the gentleman has raised a wider issue, and that is the war on terror. And it seems to me that today of all days we ought to talk a little bit about the war on terror.
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