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What if we had never gone to war in Iraq? I wonder where our country might be today if we had never made that tragic mistake. Thousands of American families would never have stood before flag-draped coffins, grieving over young lives cut short. A trillion dollars in debt would not be burdening our economy, to be paid back by our children and grandchildren.

Our troops did all we asked of them and more. In the toll they paid, and in the burden laid upon the nation, the war in Iraq cost us dearly. I voted with 22 other senators against authorizing the Iraq War, believing then as I do today that the strategy of containment was keeping Saddam Hussein at bay. If he posed an imminent threat to anyone, it was to Iran, not to the United States.

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