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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:40 AM
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Sen Gordon Smith: "I, for one, am tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day"

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/12/gop-senator-criticizes-iraq-war-in.html

GOP senator criticizes Iraq war in emotional speech

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an emotional speech on the Senate floor Thursday night, Sen Gordon Smith, a moderate Republican from Oregon who has been a supporter of the war in Iraq, said the U.S. military's "tactics have failed" and he "cannot support that anymore."

Smith said he is at, "the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up the same bombs, day after day.

"That is absurd," he said. "It may even be criminal."

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"I, for one, am tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day. So let's cut and run or cut and walk, but let us fight the way on terror more intelligently that we have because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way," he said.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:45 AM
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1. Pray tell Sen Smith
how are YOU paying the price?
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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:49 AM
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2. Oh, but you had no problem supporting it before
I so hope he's gone in 08
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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:51 AM
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3. Smith in 2003
Sen. Gordon Smith, a Republican, paraphrased Ho Chi Minh, noting that the North Vietnamese leader said the Vietnam War was won by dividing the American public, not on the battlefield.

"We must win," Smith said. "We must not have the will of the American people broken by the naysayers."


http://news.neilrogers.com/news/articles/2004040819.html
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:25 PM
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17. So bush broke a yaysayer.
I feel sorry that bush sucked in so many..bush and the sucking mediawhores.
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OregonBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:52 AM
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4. He's up for re-election in 2008. Run Gordy run. Run from your president.
Oregonians are not happy with the GOP right now!!
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:53 AM
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5. Did he say he was wrong?
I'm waiting to hear the words "I was wrong"
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:56 AM
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6. There's blood on your hands Senator Smith...
no amount of washing is going to get it out.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:57 AM
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7. I watched it, it was one of the most beautiful speeches...
I've ever seen. I wish he wasn't a damn Republican.

He just completely explained what he used to believe, and why he had changed his feelings.

C-Span may have it, and if they do, I encourage all DUers to watch it. I think it is yet another turning point in the war.

Now if we can only get a couple of hardliners to come over to our side, we might just be able to get those fellas out of Iraq.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 09:01 AM
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9. Gordon often has Election Day conversions
He gladly took the support of Matthew Shepard's mother during his last campaign, then promptly turned around and voted for every "defense of marriage" bill that came out of the hopper. Smith has his finger wetted and stuck resolutely in the prevailing political wind. As soon as he's got his re-election safely salted away, he'll be back to voting for every supplemental appropriation bill, every continuing resolution, and every other stay-the-failed-course bill that comes to the Senate floor.

Watch what Smith does, because it rarely matches up with what he says.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:32 PM
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18. Bummer! Cause those were some
powerful words for getting OUT!
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:59 AM
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8. I wrote him in August 2002 asking him to stop the march to war.
I wrote him twice after that, asking him to vote against the IWR, then asking him to act against the impending invasion. He just wrote back with the pro-Bush pro-war Republican party line, and went ahead and helped us get into this horrible, murderous mess.

Oregon needs to dump this guy in 2008.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 09:02 AM
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10. How weird, he's a member of the Udall family!
"Smith is also a member of the Udall political family, being a double cousin of Democratic Congressmen Mo and Stewart Udall, and a double second cousin of current Congressmen Mark Udall and Tom Udall (Smith is the only Republican in the group)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Smith
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wakemeupwhenitsover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:22 PM
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15. I've always said that Mo Udall must be
spinning in his grave.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 09:34 AM
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11. The war was peachy, until they started fighting back
what an idiot.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 09:38 AM
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12. on the good news side, those that flip with the prevailing winds are
signalling that the prevailing winds are blowing against the war.

funny how opportunistic republicans have figured it out, but we couldn't get "moderate" democrats to "get it" before this election.

how hilarious to see them scrambling to have their toast land jam side up NOW.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 10:00 AM
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13. a moderate Republican from Oregon
give me a break. This guy is not moderate. Mudddle headed, but not moderate.
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DemReadingDU Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:12 PM
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14. evening kick
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:23 PM
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16. I've never even heard of this
other Senator from Oregon..Senator Smith. I like the way he phrases that..
"I, for one, am tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day. So let's cut and run or cut and walk, but let us fight the way on terror more intelligently that we have because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way," he said"
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PsN2Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:54 PM
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20. Except Senator, YOU are not the one paying the price
Your own son killed himself but at least he wasn't sent to die by you and the administration you've supported.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-08-06 08:52 PM
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19. Sorry, Gordo
Too little and WAY too late.

Gordo is about money. Period. His constituents, (which I am one) do get letters from him occassionally - asking for more money.

Maybe Bill Bradbury, our state SOS, will run against him again.

Gordo is NOT a moderate!
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