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Joe Biden: “But, Senator Boxer, we went to war, not because of aluminum tubes, we went to war because this was the threat of weapons…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 2005
But, Senator Boxer, we went to war, not because of aluminum tubes, we went to war because this was the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a man against whom we had gone to war before.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
congress.gov
Jan 18, 2005

Editor's note · Context

Biden explains the rationale for the Iraq war regarding weapons of mass destruction.

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