I'm a fairly strong reader, able to read through even quite dense academic works in a pretty short amount of time but...

I met senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

That's enough. You've found the perfect words to summarize what you are going to say without saying it. I will not dirty this purity of spirit by reading the rest of it. Let poetry be poetry and let those words stand alone.