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Menendez stands firm on Iraq war |
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Written by Bruno Corry
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Thursday, 14 September 2006 |
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Published in Home News & Tribune
Let me remind Home News Tribune columnist and Executive Editor Charles Paolino that U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., has been a critic of the Iraq war from the get-go. His counterpart, Thomas Kean Jr., is the one who has recently jumped on the anti-war bandwagon by criticizing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield of horrible mismanagement. So who is being the opportunist?
If anything, had more of our politicians criticized and voted against the need for this senseless war, as Menendez has done all along, we would not be in this horrible fiasco. For Menendez, voting against the war in Iraq is not just some idiosyncratic quirk, but a position he has persistently stuck with and in fact proudly claims as one of his most important actions.
The lack of success in Iraq is not the product of straight-thinking individuals but rather of a fanatic group of neo-conservatives that consider occupation and domination the way to resolve international conflicts. History, however, tells us this strategy will never work and four years in Iraq (more than World War II) has proved history to be right.
It's now time to pull out of Iraq. Most Americans are fed up with war and realize it is bankrupting us both morally and financially. It's Kean who realizes rubber-stamping Bush's war will cost him critical votes if he doesn't back off on his stance. Is he a flip-flopper or is he just playing dirty politics as usual? |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 July 2007 )
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