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Trent Lott on Iraq: “Just Mow the Whole Place Down”

HeadlineNov 03, 2003

And Senator Trent Lott has offered his own solution to the Iraq crisis.

In an interview last week with the Washington-based newspaper The Hill, Lott said, “If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. Youíre dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out.”

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