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On the recordMarch 6, 2013
This is getting perilously close to a debate, and I am sorry, for those observing, it looks like the Senate is actually in a debate. The obvious question is was bin Laden an imminent threat to the United States when we took him out? I think he was. Was he hatching a plot to cause harm to the United States in an imminent manner? Probably not.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 6, 2013

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