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Ernest F. Hollings: I was misled. I voted for that thing. But how was I misled? Number one, you had aluminum tubes, you had mushroom clouds…

On the recordSeptember 22, 2003
I was misled. I voted for that thing. But how was I misled? Number one, you had aluminum tubes, you had mushroom clouds, you had yellow cake, you had the Vice President saying they reconstituted nuclear.
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Ernest F. Hollings
South Carolina
Source
congress.gov
Sep 22, 2003

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Senator Hollings expresses regret over being misled about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

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