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Robert C. Byrd: “The people haven't been told that. They were told that we were going in there because of weapons of mass destruction.”

On the recordSeptember 22, 2003
The people haven't been told that. They were told that we were going in there because of weapons of mass destruction.
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Robert C. Byrd
Source
congress.gov
Sep 22, 2003

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Senator Byrd critiques the justification given to the public for the Iraq invasion.

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