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Mike Pence: One of 100. It was the size of three or four resorts in Florida and twice as opulent. But across the street, there is a…

On the recordMarch 11, 2004
One of 100. It was the size of three or four resorts in Florida and twice as opulent. But across the street, there is a bunker underground hidden underneath what appears to be a garbage dump or a broken and destroyed building. It was three stories underground. It was one of those sophisticated bunkers we hear about; but what was most provocative to me was to learn that in that bunker was an enormous financial investment in a ventilation system which was designed as a countermeasure to the distribution of chemical or biological weapons. There was a decontamination room to essentially remove chemical or biological agents that were on a person before they could enter the bunker itself. For a regime that, according to some of the administration's critics, never had weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein's own bunker, literally down the street from his primary palace, had an enormous multi-million dollar investment to protect him from weapons that he apparently did not possess.
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Mike Pence
Republican · Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the discovery of a bunker in Iraq during a speech on weapons of mass destruction.

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