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Jay Inslee: “And there is a moral obligation by the United States Government to come forward and answer some of these questions that…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2004
And there is a moral obligation by the United States Government to come forward and answer some of these questions that we have been asking tonight. The people of this country, the families who have servicepeople serving in Iraq, those who have lost members of their families, they deserve a clear, cogent, and complete answer of how a war was started based on a false premise about what the status of weapons was in Iraq. I read something extremely disturbing to me this weekend. It was printed in the Knight Ridder newspapers. I read it in the Seattle Times February 10, an article entitled 'Doubts and Dissent Removed from Public Report on Iraq. Secret version President Bush received was more cautious about threat.'
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Jay Inslee
Democratic · Washington

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Addressing the moral obligation of the U.S. government regarding the Iraq war and its justification.

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