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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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