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Bill Delahunt: There was a report today, or rather Monday, in The Washington Post that the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld, when he…

On the recordSeptember 9, 2003
There was a report today, or rather Monday, in The Washington Post that the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld, when he was concluding his 4-day trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, complained that critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy are encouraging terrorists and complicating the war on terrorism. Give me a break.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Addressing comments made by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld regarding critics of the Iraq policy.

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