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The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.

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Paul Wolfowitz
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: December 22
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