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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (12393)	10/15/2003 8:32:17 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793895

Good for Gephardt! From TNR __________________________ BOLD MOVE by Michael Crowley Candidate: Dick Gephardt Category: Political Courage Grade: A In perhaps the greatest act of self-restraint in this campaign so far, Gephardt announced this afternoon that he will support the $87 billion Iraq budget bill in the House. He deserves tremendous credit. Gephardt's support for the war in Iraq has been a huge albatross, something that could cost him a chance at the Democratic nomination. (Aware of this, he's recently engaged in some convenient revisionism on the subject.) Which is why he must have been as tempted as a sailor passing a brothel to oppose the president's Iraq budget bill. This was a chance to pander to liberal voters angry about his original war vote--something John Edwards has chosen to do (and, as it looks, likely John Kerry will do). Of course, it's the candidates who supported the war who have an added obligation to support the proper completion of America's Iraq mission--and in that sense, Gephardt is simply doing what we should expect from him. What's more, opposing the bill would have opened Gephardt up to new charges of opportunism. That said, this was a hard, and admirable, political choice. Bravo. tnr.com