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Dan Burton: “Let me just say, did the gentleman know that as of January of this year that they were still sending weapons in from…”

On the recordMay 8, 1996
Let me just say, did the gentleman know that as of January of this year that they were still sending weapons in from Iran, after our troops were there, after we had 20,000 American troops on the ground?
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Dan Burton
Indiana

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Discussing the ongoing issue of weapon shipments from Iran during a military deployment.

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