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David Gergen: “If his voice had prevailed, then the country might have had a very different outcome in Iraq.”

On the recordNovember 14, 2004
If his voice had prevailed, then the country might have had a very different outcome in Iraq.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Gergen suggests that Powell's influence could have changed the course of the Iraq war.

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