Must read speech. Must see video.Justin Rood for TPM Muckraker.com:
"It's the kind of thing you'd expect to hear on Pacifica Radio, not in a speech by a Republican senator.Read the entire speech here.
"I, for one, am 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 by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal," declared Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), a 10-year veteran of the Senate, in a speech last night.
Did he mean it? Senators rarely throw around words like "criminal," especially when talking about actions by their own party. What's he going to do about it? Well, Gordon has been known to act on his convictions when he thinks a president has broken the law: he voted to convict President Bill Clinton in 1999, following the president's impeachment by the House...."
Watch a video of the speech here.
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Gordon Smith may not have drank as much of the kool-aid as some have; but his comments that he doesn't believe Bush is a liar or a traitor, show that he's had his tongue in the punch-bowl.
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