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NOTE: President Carter used his 1980 SOTU speech to address the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the American hostages taken by Iran. He called for increasing military spending, reducing restrictions on the CIA, and revival of the selective services registration. Many on the left, like Noam Chomsky, attacked him for his response to the crisis, others, like Sen. McGovern supported him, while John Kerry offered qualified support and equivocation. ************************************************************************************************** January 25, 1980 by Richard H. Stewart Globe Staff Antiwar activists from the Vietnam era are not as united about President Jimmy Carter's tough-sounding [State of the Union] speech on...

16 Words From the July 22, 2003 Dallas Morning News: Maybe there is a reason Bush won't retract the sentence. by Terry Eastland SNIP As all the world knows by now, it was during his State of the Union address that Bush, in an effort to highlight Iraq's nuclear ambitions, spoke this 16-word sentence: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Earlier this month both CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said the evidence wasn't good enough to support that sentence. At the press conference, a reporter...

Half the Nation Favors Military Action Without U.N. Backing President Bush has reversed the downward drift in public support for war with Iraq despite widespread fears that the conflict would continue for many months and produce large numbers of U.S. casualties, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. After the president's State of the Union speech on Tuesday in which he laid out the case for a U.S.-led invasion, the survey found that 66 percent of Americans favor taking military action against Iraq, up from 57 percent two weeks ago and the most support for war since mid-September.