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|author=Ted Kennedy
|source=The Huffington Post
|date=January 9, 2007
|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-edward-m-kennedy-/escalation-its-not-his-_b_38216.html
|quote="Congress must exert its constitutional authority and demand a vote before any escalation in Iraq. In October 2002, Members of Congress authorized a war against the regime of Saddam Hussein, not to send our troops into a civil war. I voted against that resolution and feel an escalation of this war only compounds the original mistake of going in the first place."
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