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President, House agree to Iraq resolution
USA TODAY ^
| 10/02/02
Posted on 10/02/2002 11:35:08 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:40:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON (AP)
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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posted on
10/02/2002 11:35:08 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
To: kattracks
Gephart is on board - Daschle is still holding out. The Dem's must be feeling the heat from their peace-nik wing. Daschle knows that the longer the Iraq debate drags on, his "issues" are crowded off the front page.
To: ghost of nixon
So much for Gore's new hissy fit today. Gephardt just made Gore irrelevant to the Iraqi debate...
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posted on
10/02/2002 11:54:48 AM PDT
by
Southack
To: kattracks
whatever one's opinions of Gephart and Lieberman, one has to admit that they are much smarter then the majority of their colleagues.
To: IonInsights
to enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq.One-two-three-four we don't want your UN war.
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posted on
10/02/2002 12:12:53 PM PDT
by
JohnGalt
To: IonInsights
Lieberman, at least, is not doing this out of political expediency. He was out there calling for us to take on Iraq right after 9/11.
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posted on
10/02/2002 12:15:33 PM PDT
by
Mo1
To: The Great Satan
Lieberman is Jewish and probably feels the immediacy of Iraq's threat more than the run-of-the-mill democrat. Didn't he also have a distant relative, also named Lieberman, die in Israel in the last several years?
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posted on
10/02/2002 12:30:44 PM PDT
by
twigs
To: twigs
Sounds vaguely familiar. And, yeah, he would would have more reason to be aware of Saddam's threat as a Jew, although there are certainly plenty of liberal Jews who don't get it. Recall, too, that abiding leftist hostility to Israel was a big factor in driving many formerly left-wing Jews into the conservative camp.
To: twigs
It was a cousin, I think. Last year.
To: kattracks
Typical of the AP to use a thousand words or more to say:
"President's Iraq plan sails through House, gains support even among Democrats, though many other Democrats aren't taking the president's victory with any type of good grace.
"Senate Democrats who don't want the plan plan to filibuster if necessary to give their own whining, UN appeasing, ineffective version of the Iraq plan a chance to be shoved down the throats of the American public."
To: ghost of nixon
"Daschle knows that the longer the Iraq debate drags on, his "issues" are crowded off the front page."Either that or while Daschle rested on his obstructionary laurals, believing he had all the apparatus in place to manufacture another Bush administration "scandal", the president did a neat flanking maneuver on him and GOT TO some of Daschle's lackeys.
...Or perhaps SOME Dems are beginning to believe the Floriduh redux Toricelli election fiasco and the revelation that the Dems are fielding a dead candidate in Hawaii doesn't bode well for their own political careers unless they can distance themselves from the worst Democrat poliyical messes ASAP. After all, controlling the Senate is NOT the same thing as having a Democrat housepet running the IRS and Justice Department to run interference for you.
...Probably both.
To: ghost of nixon
Yet another bi-partisan Depublican/War. I knew from the beginning that the Democratic "dissent" was merely eyewash for an eventual blank check to Dubya.
To: ghost of nixon
That's "Demopublican"
To: kattracks
The resolution also requires Bush to report to Congress every 60 days on "matters relevant" to the confrontation with Iraq. 60 days? Like in New Jersey, this number can be interpreted in so many ways. Maybe just a 10 second bombing notice would qualify.
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posted on
10/02/2002 4:22:34 PM PDT
by
Mark
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