A U.S. Army Soldier and an Iraqi boy enjoy the singing of Iraqi students from the Khartoon Elementary School during the grand opening art show celebration at the Doura Community College, in southern Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 26, 2008. The Soldier is assigned to the 4th Infantry Division's 2nd Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Todd Frantom
"I will not forget this wound to our country or those who inflicted it. I will not yield; I will not rest; I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people." President Bush's Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People, Sept 20, 2001
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..." I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values. And I darn sure wasn't going to sacrifice those values; that I was a President that had to make tough choices and was willing to make them." President Bush, November 28,2008
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...."An apparent evolution of Mr. Obama’s thinking...in contrast to comments he made in July, when he called a news conference to lay out his Iraq policy in unambiguous terms.
...To date, there has been no significant criticism from the antiwar left of the Democratic Party of the prospect that Mr. Obama will keep tens of thousands of troops in Iraq for at least several years to come..."
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..."the problem of Pakistan and the Islamist terrorism..
...caricatured efforts like the Patriot Act, the FISA accords, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the fostering of Middle East constitutional government, and the killing of violent insurgents abroad in Afghanistan and Iraq might seem once again understandable in the context of preventing another major violent terrorist attack of the sort we just saw at Mumbai." Victor Davis hanson
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"But I do know this...that if he [OBAMA]had come down, it would have fired up our base even more"
..."And that is Republicans stand for smaller government, fiscal responsibility, more individual rights and freedoms, and lower taxes. And we've got to get back to those fundamentals," Sen. Saxby Chambliss
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..."advice to President-elect Obama: Learn the real lessons of the Depression, not those that pop economists would have you learn."
Pursue free trade — against the counsel of protectionists in the Democratic Party. It was, after all, the Smoot-Hawley trade tariffs that helped trigger the Depression..."
"Mr. Obama's biggest gamble is associating his Presidency with the Clinton political circus.
...Given the Clinton history with the Riadys of Indonesia, Johnny Chung, the Lippo Group and Arkansas compadre Thomas "Mack" McLarty's business travels through the Americas, we hope the President-elect knows what he's getting into. The Senate has an obligation to inspect and make public the Clinton global fund-raising machine check by check, with names, dates and precise amounts."
Republican For a Reason
..."but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense." Ronald Reagan
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Minnesota Recount
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