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Senator Craig
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31/08/2007 16:32:26
 
 
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31/08/2007 16:08:40
John Baird
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Politics
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Miscellaneous
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Nope. You seem to want to attribute generalizations to what I write. Which in no way, shape or form is my intent. It seems everyone else who responded seemed to get the point.

Nothing to do with the specific behavior of Craig. But everything to do with the behavior in relation to what the repubs try to present themselves as in an attempt to get votes.

There are many conservatives who do seem to get the point. As Ex-General Batiste does:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/22/batiste-conservatives/


As a conservative, I am all for a strong military and setting the conditions for success. America goes to war to win. I am not anti-war and am committed to winning the struggle against world-wide Islamic extremism. But, I am outraged that elected officials of my own party do not comprehend the predicament we are in with a strategy in the Middle East that lacks focus and is all but relying on the military to solve the diplomatic, political, and economic Rubik’s Cube that defines Iraq. Our dysfunctional interagency process in Washington DC lacks leadership and direction. Many conservatives in Congress have allowed the charade to go on for too long.

It is disappointing that so many elected representatives of my party continue to blindly support the administration rather than doing what is in the best interests of our country. Traditionally, my party has maintained a conservative view on questions regarding our Armed Forces. For example, we commit our military only when absolutely necessary. In the same way conservatives have always argued against government excess in social programs, the lives our young men and women in uniform, our most precious resource, are not to be used on wars of choice or for nation building. The military theorist Carl von Clausewitz taught us that wars are to be fought only as a last resort–the extension of politics by other means




>>Are you trying to say you're a homophobe too? I am not attributing any particular behavior to the republican party other then the oneness they tend to exude marching in lockstep to whatever directions are given by repub hq.
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>How in the world did you reach that conclusion? Becuase I'm conservative I'm a bigot?

(On an infant's shirt): Already smarter than Bush
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