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Patrick Leahy: “I'm sorry there's no real plan, despite a year-long $5 million effort by the State Department, to stop the looting that…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2004
I'm sorry there's no real plan, despite a year-long $5 million effort by the State Department, to stop the looting that greeted our soldiers upon Saddam's fall.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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congress.gov
Mar 1, 2004

Editor's note · Context

Leahy laments the lack of a plan to prevent looting after Saddam's fall.

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