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Patrick Leahy: “I'm sorry that this administration repeatedly, insistently, and unrelentingly justified preemptive war by insisting that…”

On the recordMay 12, 2004
I'm sorry that this administration repeatedly, insistently, and unrelentingly justified preemptive war by insisting that Saddam Hussein not only had weapons of mass destruction, but he was hell bent on using them against us and our allies.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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congress.gov
May 12, 2004

Editor's note · Context

Leahy criticizes the administration's justification for the war in Iraq.

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