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On the recordAugust 2, 2021
the war, ultimately, was fought on a lie that President Bush and Dick Cheney, his entire administration, made, which was that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey criticizes the justification for the Iraq war as based on false claims.

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