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Tom Delay: “Calling for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation is as bad as saying the war is unwinnable.”

On the recordMay 5, 2004
Calling for Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation is as bad as saying the war is unwinnable.
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Tom Delay
Republican · Texas

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Majority Leader Tom DeLay equates calls for Rumsfeld's resignation with defeatism regarding the war.

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