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On the recordNovember 7, 2004
the argument the Democrats made, some of them before the war, was that invading Iraq would be a distraction from the real war against al Qaeda. There's increasing evidence that we were right.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas
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Begala emphasizes the Democratic argument against the Iraq invasion and suggests it has been validated by subsequent events.

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