I didn't advocate invasion…I wasn't asked.

 

I didn't advocate invasion…I wasn't asked.
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Responding to George Stephanopoulos about whether he would have advocated an invasion of Iraq if he had known that no weapons of mass destruction would be found there, ABC News This Week, November 20, 2005

 

Donald Rumsfeld

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