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Maxine Waters: “Thank you very much, I am so pleased and proud to have been joined by my colleagues here this evening to sound the…”

On the recordApril 15, 2008
Thank you very much, I am so pleased and proud to have been joined by my colleagues here this evening to sound the alarm. Let me say that again, we are sounding the alarm. We are opening up the debate. We are raising the questions. We are challenging this administration on the issue of war with Iran. We are saying, Mr. President, we have watched, we have listened, and we have learned. We are smarter people when we hear talk about war, when we hear accusations being made. When we hear a march to war we now recognize it for what it is. It is a given that we have this knowledge that we have acquired since we have been here since the start of the war with Iraq. We do not intend to sit idly by without opening up the discussion, without making the challenge, without raising the questions.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Addressing concerns about the potential for war with Iran.

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