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Bill Delahunt: “That is on top of the $300 billion that is already been spent. We are looking at a billion dollars for, as the gentleman…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2003
That is on top of the $300 billion that is already been spent. We are looking at a billion dollars for, as the gentleman says, a search for ghosts. But we did find in a refrigerator of an Iraqi scientist purportedly one vial of botulin toxin, which, of course, you can find basically at any ag school or any research lab anywhere in the United States, but for only $300 million we did find that and that apparently presented, according to this administration, a real and present danger to the United States of America, that one vial of toxin, which, of course, is readily available. In fact, I think you can still buy them and have them shipped in the United States of America.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Discussing the costs and findings related to the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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