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Bill Delahunt: “Can my colleague repeat those? How many enemy combatants? Presumably those are former Iraqi soldiers.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2004
Can my colleague repeat those? How many enemy combatants? Presumably those are former Iraqi soldiers.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Questioning the number of enemy combatants during a discussion on military actions.

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