Tenn. Republican Fights Iraq Aid Package

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 16, 2003

Filed at 2:18 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tennessee Rep. John Duncan Jr. isn't a rebel at heart. He votes the conservative, Republican line more than 90 percent of the time and avoids the spotlight.

When it comes to Iraq, however, he is one vote -- possibly out of only a few among the 229 House Republicans -- that the White House will not be getting this week on an aid package for Iraq.

"There's nothing conservative about the policy there,'' Duncan said in a recent interview. "It's massive foreign aid.''

Duncan has stood apart from President Bush and the GOP on Iraq once before. A year ago, he was one of just six House Republicans to vote against a resolution giving Bush authority to go to war. He said at the time that he was not convinced that war was absolutely necessary.

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One of our Kansas Republicans, Jim (I think) Moran, spoke out yesterday against Bush's "new" plans for Cuba.

I don't get it. Most every person I've heard from on on the topic of Iraqi oil says they don't want it. And, now you are decrying forgien aid. did you know that the oil that is bought from Iraq is bought at the going market price as set by OPEC , this oil is the only export they have. If we dont buy the oil they need forgien aid. I personally find the oil option to be the best.