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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 07:28 PM
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No one who pushed the Iraq War should be elected President.
Before Iraq



After Iraq



McCain doesn't get to run from this. This is 21 yr old kid. All this for nothing
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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 07:31 PM
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1. No more explaining away why they voted for the war before they were against it,
or claiming they were misled or lied to, especially when they could not be bothered to actually read the bill.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 07:33 PM
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2. rule number one. right on.
unforgiviable is unforgivable.
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Middle finga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 07:39 PM
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3. You may want to put a GRAPHIC warning on this post..
The Iraq war enablers should all be ashamed of themselves but yet two of them think they should be rewarded with the highest office in the land for their evil deeds.
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OutNow Donating Member (538 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:08 PM
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4. I Agree - I will not vote for a war criminal for President
The Iraq war has lasted longer than WW2, so I know it's hard to remember back to the lead-up to the war. Sure, 60-80% of the people are against the war now, but that wasn't the case at the beginning. The great Texas liberal Lloyd Doggett spoke out against the war at a rally at the state capital in Austin with his family at his side. His seat in the House was in danger due to Karl Rove's redistricting plot. He could have played it safe and stayed home, but he didn't. I was so proud of Lloyd that day and so angry that most of the leaders of the Democratic Party were complicit in Bush's war with their silence and their votes for the IWR. We knew that the IWR was a vote for Bush's war. We knew it and so did the rest of the world.

There was another Democrat that spoke out against the war when it was not so popular to do so. In October 2002 Barack Obama spoke out against the war at the first large antiwar rally in Chicago. He blasted Bush and the neocons. None of the "if I knew then what I now now" bullshit. He knew the war was wrong in 2002.

He earned my vote and my financial support. He will be elected President. His remaining opponents have blood on their hands.

Bring the troops home now.

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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:10 PM
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5. Agreed. K&R
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:34 PM
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6. Nobody who funded or supported it while in office
should be elected president.

That means we're screwed, if you hadn't noticed.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:43 PM
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8. there is one person who has come clean
and now has a consistent record against the war, at all times. But I can't really stand bob barr.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:04 PM
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10. And Ron Paul, of course,
but neither of them are "on the table" for me.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:09 PM
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11. right of course
I always forget the true 'anti-war' candidate, Dr. Paul.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:35 PM
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7. Rec'd with all my heart
:cry:

For T
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 08:47 PM
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9. and Obama's running mate should be someone who NEVER supported the Iraq War Resolution (IWR) nt
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:10 PM
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12. Absolutely!
Stop the war. Bring the troops home. Get medical and mental health help for those that need it and paid for collage educations for anyone that went to Iraq or Afghanistan.

AND make some serous dents in stopping our war industry. The United States is not in charge of the rest of the world and does not have responsibility of policing this world. We have no good reason for producing the billion's of dollars in war toy and parts every year.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:17 PM
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15. That's right and all this talk from hilary on RFK's assassination
in JUNE will ensure she's never going to be on there.
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-26-08 01:26 AM
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17. Hopefully, but w/ well over 40% of the delegates backing her for PRESIDENT, I wouldn't count on it
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:16 PM
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13. So sad..I feel so bad for them..and yeah, no
more WARHOGs, hilary.

hilary's quote on Feb, 17, 2007..not so long ago.

<snip>

"On February 17, 2007 she told people who disagreed with her vote on Iraq to choose from the other candidates:

If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from,” Mrs. Clinton told an audience in Dover, N.H., in a veiled reference to two rivals for the nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6117169

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:17 PM
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14. And unfortuntately, that soldier died from his wounds recently. :(
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New Dawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:19 PM
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16. I agree.
Every time I hear about people like Bush, McCain, Lieberman, Clinton, etc. I think of the countless lives that their illegal war destroyed.
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