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Jay Inslee: let me make a point, because I think it is important. It is not just this nuclear threat. As the gentlemen know…

On the recordFebruary 11, 2004
let me make a point, because I think it is important. It is not just this nuclear threat. As the gentlemen know, Condoleezza Rice made repeated references to the mushroom cloud, which is a most disturbing image to all of us having suffered through September 11, and a real potential threat from Iran and North Korea. But it is not just the nuclear threat, but the American people were not given the full scoop in this regard. The gentlemen will recall when the President and others made repeated references to the unmanned aerial vehicles that they told us was a threat to the continental United States, that Iraq could fly over American cities and spray biological material over the United States and none of us can always ever eliminate any threat. Today somebody may be planning to do that today as we speak. I do not want to be Pollyanna-ish about this, but the President told us that our intelligence services were telling us that was going on. According to this article, let me tell the gentlemen what the United States Air Force was telling the President of the United States. What it said was: ``The Air Force does not agree that Iraq is developing UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles, primarily intended to be delivery platforms for chemical and biological warfare, CBW agents.…
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Jay Inslee
Democratic · Washington

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Discussing the perceived threats from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea during a debate on national security.

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