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I should have voted for the first Iraq war. George Bush did that one very well. I had been skeptical. I was afraid that George Bush was going to treat the first Iraq war the way his son treated the second.
Barney Frank
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Barney Frank
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 31
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