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On the recordMarch 30, 2009
I went on television, because I have been on the Intelligence Committee for a long, long time and still am, as we did our weapons of mass destruction studies and discovered that the whole thing was a fraud and there was no connection between any weapons that the President was using to speak to the Congress to influence American public opinion, and that there was no relationship between Al-Qaeda and Iraq with respect to the 9/11 tragedy.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Discussing the misleading information regarding Iraq's weapons and its connection to 9/11.

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