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Robert C. Byrd: “The war in Iraq was not a defensive war. It was a preemptive attack.”

On the recordSeptember 22, 2003
The war in Iraq was not a defensive war. It was a preemptive attack.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
congress.gov
Sep 22, 2003

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Senator Byrd critiques the justification for the Iraq war.

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