Rep. Rahm Emanuel said "Well, one would think on the doorstep of war one would read that. But I want to stress one thing about what our colleague from Washington mentioned. He said the President was certain about his opinion about the imminent danger of Iraq and Saddam Hussein, but the people around him in the agencies and departments had their questions. Yet the President was certain. Again, I want to underscore this is not to relitigate why we went to war, this is to litigate how we got to war. Not the Iraqi war. We are not going to relitigate that. We are in, and so we have to support our men and women. It is how that happened so this mistake does not happen again." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 21, 2003

Well, one would think on the doorstep of war one would read that. But I want to stress one thing about what our colleague from Washington mentioned. He said the President was certain about his opinion about the imminent danger of Iraq and Saddam Hussein, but the people around him in the agencies and departments had their questions. Yet the President was certain. Again, I want to underscore this is not to relitigate why we went to war, this is to litigate how we got to war. Not the Iraqi war. We are not going to relitigate that. We are in, and so we have to support our men and women. It is how that happened so this mistake does not happen again.

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Rep. Rahm Emanuel

Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the certainty of the President's stance on Iraq before the war.

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