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On the recordMay 11, 2015
No. It wasn't. I think President Bush made the best decision he could at the time. Given that his intelligence community was telling him there was WMD and there were other threats right there in Iraq. But I don't think you can honestly say that if we knew then that there was no WMD, that the country should have gone to war.
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Chris Christie
Republican · New Jersey

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Chris Christie states that the decision to go to war in Iraq was wrong if they had known there were no WMDs.

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