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Joe Biden: “Clearly we are not. That is not to suggest you are suggesting it is not good Saddam is gone. I think we are, in a…”

On the recordMay 20, 2004
Clearly we are not. That is not to suggest you are suggesting it is not good Saddam is gone. I think we are, in a marginal sense, safer because he is gone. But I think the effect of what we have allowed to happen, or what has happened in the rest of the world, has literally put us in more jeopardy.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Discussing the implications of the Iraq War and global security.

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