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On the recordJanuary 18, 2005
I think it is to move forward. The concern that many of my constituents in Illinois express is that we went into Iraq, at least in their minds, because of a very specific threat of terror, not tyranny but terror.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama discusses constituents' concerns about the Iraq war justification.

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