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Clinton's Conversation With Sandy Berger

Before Kosovo, we had the first Iraq war. If you remember what Clinton... That was the crisis. It was because he shut the inspectors out. And Clinton wanted to bomb Iraq. We were concerned because it was the time of Monica Lewinsky. Concerned as to what the motivation was for this bombing. But we went along with it - which is why people questioned whether we believed he had weapons of mass destruction or not. The reason we bombed in the first time in 1998, along with Bill Clinton was we believed he Had WMDs. He didn't believe that at the time. How did the New York Times get that story? I don't know. You're very much still

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