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