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Joe Lieberman: “I do not think we will ever go it alone because we are going to the United Nations. But how then does the Senator read…”

On the recordOctober 9, 2002
I do not think we will ever go it alone because we are going to the United Nations. But how then does the Senator read section 4(a) of his amendment, which says clearly that the President can only use the Armed Forces of the United States to destroy, disarm Iraq's weapons of mass destruction if there is U.N. permission?
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Discussing the use of U.S. Armed Forces in relation to Iraq and U.N. authorization.

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