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Tom Cole: Reclaiming my time. I disagree with my friend's characterization of when the mass graves were. There are certainly 35…

On the recordMarch 15, 2006
Reclaiming my time. I disagree with my friend's characterization of when the mass graves were. There are certainly 35 years' worth of mass graves in Iraq, but a lot of them are from 1991 on, and particularly from the uprising of the Shi'a against Saddam Hussein, when an American Army was sitting on their border and we urged them to rise up and did nothing to help them. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
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