Maxine Waters: “Let me make it absolutely clear that if the President of the United…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 1997

Let me make it absolutely clear that if the President of the United States wrote to the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. Callahan], called, and insisted on funding the School of the Americas, then I am opposed to the President and the President is wrong. Let me make it abundantly clear that if Mr. McCaffrey called, he should be the first one to understand that it is a war. His life just got threatened when he was down in Mexico among the drug traffickers who sent him a message in no uncertain terms. I think he knows it is a war now.

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Maxine Waters

Democratic · California

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Addressing opposition to funding the School of the Americas and the implications of drug trafficking.

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