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Hon. Joseph M. Hoeffel: “We are resuming the Iraq Watch. This is an effort that has been going on since late in the spring, primarily by four of…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 2003
We are resuming the Iraq Watch. This is an effort that has been going on since late in the spring, primarily by four of us here on the floor of the House, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Delahunt), the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie), and the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Emanuel), to raise questions about our policies in Iraq, to suggest corrections in those policies, to ask questions about the diplomacies leading up to military action, to ask questions about the intelligence relating to weapons of mass destruction, the use of that intelligence, the presence and whereabouts and the custody of those weapons of mass destruction, fundamentally questions about whether we are winning the peace and what exit strategy we have and when we will turn Iraq back to the Iraqis.
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Hon. Joseph M. Hoeffel
Pennsylvania

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Addressing the House on the Iraq Watch initiative and questioning U.S. policies in Iraq.

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