D.C. lawmaker’s comment sparks #eleanorholmesnortonhistory on Twitter

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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s nonvoting House member, on Thursday sparked a new hashtag on Twitter with a comment about the Iraq War that was wrong in every respect.

During a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Benghazi, Norton said Iraq was “perhaps the most catastrophic war of the 20th century.”

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