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On the recordJanuary 18, 2005
I think if you ask the average American, you know, 'Was Saddam worth one life, one American life,' they'd say no.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the justification for American lives lost in Iraq.

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