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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.”

On the recordMay 12, 2004
I'm sorry there's no real plan, despite a year-long $5 million effort by the State Department, to stop the looting.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
Source
congress.gov
May 12, 2004

Editor's note · Context

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

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