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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Partisanship and War
Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr., in a speech that was delivered in the House of Representatives on June 16, 2006, from Iraq War Contrary to Conservatism:
    I did not request time from the Democrats because many of my colleagues in the minority were using this debate in a bitterly partisan way. Surely, war should be the last thing that should become partisan.

    Yet 80 percent of the House Republicans, including me, voted against the bombings in Bosnia and Kosovo when President Clinton was in the White House. I believe 80 percent of Republicans would have opposed the war in Iraq if it had been started by President Clinton or Gore, and probably almost all the Democrats would have then been supporting it, as they did the bombings in Bosnia and Kosovo.
The speech is excellent, and demands to read in its entirity.