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Originally posted by The Germanator (D-DE)
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Problem #1. Oh, thinking out loud, sorry
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He claimed he spent the most time with the president of any other senator, and I basically agreed with his stance on the war.
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Great claim, can he back it up? Probably not.
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He said that we need support from the rest of the world, otherwise the backlash will be more than we can handle.
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We have support, leave it to a Democrat to keep forgetting that everytime he opens his mouth.
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When we try to re-build the government of Iraq, we don't just want American soldiers there, we want Turkish soldiers, German soliders, etc.
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You mean, we do the fighting, then afterwards the cowards decide to come in with the hopes to benefit from this new country? If they don't help from now on, I say leave them out of it. Last thing I want to see is France getting an oil deal.
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He also disagreed with the idea of a pre-emptive strike
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Of course, he's a democrat. Unless they're covering their ass because they want to become President, they oppose the idea.
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as other countries may take advantage of a doctrine like that i.e India nuking Pakistan for what they think would be future harm)
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Who said anything about nuking anyone? That's another political debate in itself.
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I don't know much about politics, so I probably don't remember all of the important things he said
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Don't worry, there was none. It was just a democratic anti-war speech, hoping to get some more people marching in the anti-war protests. By the way, many of those are actually set up by people sent here from Iraq. Agree or disagree, but don't march, it only hurts the country.
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And is there some big deal on Thursday?
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Wednesday I believe. Powell will adress the United Nations Security Council and show evidence against Iraq. Satellite photos, and tapes of officials saying "I can't believe they missed that," "don't tell them that," "move that," and other things showing them trying to hide from inspectors.
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He continued to argue that Bush wasn't untintelligent...
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... like Bill Clinton...
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which not many of us bought.
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He graduated from Yale, did he not?