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On the recordSeptember 12, 2004
I think it has been maybe the most scurrilous and dishonest thing that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have done, to try to conflate 9/11 and the war in Iraq.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas
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Begala criticizes Bush and Cheney for linking 9/11 to the Iraq war.

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