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Ed Markey: “We should have never started the war because we could not find the program that was the ostensible justification.”

On the recordOctober 2, 2013
We should have never started the war because we could not find the program that was the ostensible justification.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey reflects on the justification for the Iraq war related to nuclear weapons.

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