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Howard Berman: “I indicated that this was a broad, but not unlimited, delegation of authority to use force for a specific purpose, the…”

On the recordOctober 8, 2002
I indicated that this was a broad, but not unlimited, delegation of authority to use force for a specific purpose, the elimination of the weapons of mass destruction and the need to eliminate them and the supporting and harboring of terrorism. But we the American Congress and we the American people understand at the time, unlike the Gulf of Tonkin, just what we are discussing and debating; and no one has made a claim that this is not an authorization of the use of force, very specifically directed against Iraq for specific purposes.
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Howard Berman
California
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the authorization of force against Iraq in the context of weapons of mass destruction.

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