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Seth Moulton: “President Bush made up all these ideas, really. And the…”

Featuring: Seth Moulton, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 6th Congressional District

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Seth Moulton calls President Trump "senile" as he challenges Ed Markey for Senate

Published | Video Starts at 02:16

As someone who's been asked to put my life on the line for our country, we want to know that we're fighting for our families and friends back home against a legitimate threat. That was the problem with Iraq. Right. President Bush made up all these ideas, really. And the administration told a lot of lies about why we should go to war in Iraq. A lot of people thought that it was they had a place their part in 9, 11, which they did not. They said Saddam had WMD weapons of mass destruction, which we did not. (02:16–02:27)

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Asserts that President Bush's administration lied about reasons for the Iraq War.

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