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Ed Markey: In other words--no. The point I am making here is that we knew that Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapons…

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
In other words--no. The point I am making here is that we knew that Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapons program and we invaded them.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the contradiction in U.S. military actions regarding Iraq and Iran.

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