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To: PROLIFE who wrote (17764)	2/14/2007 2:28:31 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

here's the indictment, it's a fun read, what a bunch of sleaze's the gop has managed to assemble talkingpointsmemo.com;

To: PROLIFE who wrote (17764)	2/14/2007 6:18:43 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"A Florida Republican explained on the House floor today that he would not support President George W. Bush's troop escalation because it was bound to be a failure. Rep. Ric Keller criticized an earlier surge policy, warning that "the benefits were temporary, the body bags were permanent." The junior congressman's speech may signal softening of support among the House Republican caucus for the president's "new direction forward in Iraq." Rep. Ric Keller is in his fourth term as the Representative from the area of Orlando, FL. He took the House floor earlier today to say that he would vote to support the Democratic non-binding resolution that "disapproves" of the president's plan to escalate the number of troops in Iraq by more than 20,000. "Interjecting more young American troops into the cross hairs of an Iraqi civil war is simply not the right approach," said Keller. The Florida Republican offered a harsh criticism of Bush's approach, noting that it had been tried before and failed. "We tried the same thing last summer," he said. "The benefits were temporary, the body bags were permanent." Keller did say that if the President continues with the escalation, he would not vote against funding the operations. But he offered an alternative set of "surges" for the president to pursue. "I am for a surge of Iraqi troops to take out al Sadr and his militia," he said. "I am for a surge of political progress by the Iraqi government... I am for a surge of action in implementing Iraq Study Group recommendations... I am for a surge of gratitude by the Iraqi people." In concluding Keller noted, "We are not going to solve an Iraqi political problem with an American military solution, and that's my best judgment." In the course of his floor speech today, he remarked, "I like and respect President Bush, I want him to be successful."

To: PROLIFE who wrote (17764)	2/14/2007 9:49:09 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 71588

how clintonesque "North Korea, which proudly announced in October that it had tested a nuclear bomb, will start dismantling a weapons program it once said was essential to its future, while the United States will be providing economic aid and building ties to a government that President Bush once said was part of an "axis of evil." That is why many experts expressed skepticism but still embraced the deal because it involved softening hard line positions on both sides. "This is not a breakthrough and it is not a new era," said James Lilley, a U.S. ambassador to China and South Korea during the Reagan and first Bush administrations. "This is more of the same. But it's also potentially important. We got the North Koreans to do something they don't want to do, and in Washington there's acceptance that we have to buy them off."