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Now, we're happy that Francesca Chambers is giving us some time today as she is fully engaged in covering events right now because she covers specifically White House foreign policy,

White House foreign policy for USA Today. And I'm wondering how exactly is this different from what

George W. Bush did with Iraq in 2003, a preventive war where there was no imminent threat

because maybe someday, maybe someday,

Saddam Hussein may have eventually developed nuclear weapons and eventually used them against

Americans. And then we overthrew Saddam, but with no clear plan for reformulating a government

there, right? And we see how that turned out. How exactly

is this different? So we will ask that question and others. Francesca, thanks so much for this. I know

you're covering events around the clock. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you so much. And based on those

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