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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Republicans for withdrawal of the troops?

Sure...if there's a Democrat in the White House:
Background for the game: More than 13 years ago, one sitting U.S. Senator went to the Senate floor and pleading with President Clinton to bring the troops home from a distant country. This senator made a passionate plea and even cajoled President Clinton by calling the mission “nation building.”

Bonus points awarded: After you guess the Senator and the country mentioned correctly, bonus points will be awarded to the player who can explain how Senator X could be so impassioned and so convinced that our troops needed to come home in 1993, while the same Senator bashes those who advocate bringing our troops home responsibly from Iraq today.
Can you name the Senator who said this in 1993? (Here's a major hint: he's now seeking the GOP nomination for president).
“Mr. President, our mission in ________ is over. It is time to come home. Our mission in ________ was to feed a million starving _______ who needed to be fed. It was not an open-ended commitment. It was not a commission of nation building, not warlord hunting, or any of the other extraneous activities which we seem to have been engaged in.”

“If the President of the United States cannot say, "Here is what we are fighting for in ________, that more Americans may perish in service to the goals, and here is why it is worth that price," then, Mr. President, we have no right -- no right -- to ask Americans to risk their lives in any further misadventures in ________.”
See the answer in these two video clips. Props to Americans Against Escalation in Iraq for putting together the research, and the Democratic Party for the videos.

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