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Hutchinson Rejects “Iraqi Freedom” Justification

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, Foreign Policy, War

Although many won’t notice, this is a pretty big story.

A Texas Republican Senator publicly undermines Bush’s “Iraq liberation” meme.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who holds a seat deemed safe for the GOP, said in a campaign debate Thursday she would have voted against the war had she known ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction.

Get ready for an significant policy shift come Nov. 8.

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