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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-15-07 12:01 PM
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Democrats' New Military Veterans Lead House Charge on Iraq War
March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Joe Sestak (news, bio, voting record), a freshman Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, says he knows exactly when U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East went off course.

It was the summer of 2002, when he was still a three-star admiral commanding the USS George Washington battle group, and his aircraft carrier was sent steaming toward Iraq without the armada from other nations that had aided it during the war in
Afghanistan.

``When we took a left turn into the Persian Gulf, all the Australians and British, everyone stayed behind,'' said Sestak.

Sestak, 55, is one of five freshmen House Democrats with military experience who have emerged as party leaders in the congressional debate over President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy -- appearing with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), speaking up in caucus meetings and advising more senior colleagues.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070315/pl_bloomberg/acnn0tzymida_1
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Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-15-07 12:09 PM
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1. What charge???
It looks like a creep and a crawl to me.
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Larkspur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-15-07 12:09 PM
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2. Hope these guys can stare down the Blue Dog Dems who want to keep troops in Iraq
forever.
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