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Colin Powell

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That's not really a number I'm terribly interested in.
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Response to a question for his estimate number of Iraqis killed during US invasion, as quoted in Web of Deceit : The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush (2008) by Barry Lando, p. 154

 
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