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On the recordJanuary 7, 2020
That's just absolutely ridiculous. And I'm not going to let this country slide into war again like we did in 2003, when the Bush administration bullied opponents of that war into silence.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Murphy expresses his opposition to the administration's approach to war and recalls the past experience with the Bush administration.

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