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To: Gelato

I provided an article quoting Alan Keyes, if "you know" these quotes to not ben true, then you need to provide some sort of evidence, up to and including how "you know" that this newspaper lied.

Put up something to counter the quotes included in the article.


235 posted on 08/06/2004 5:57:54 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Sin Patria, pero sin amo)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Look at the article again. There is no quote of Keyes criticizing the justification for going into Iraq, which was to protect this nation. Much of the article is the student paper's summary in its own words.

The only quotes in the article are:

"Even good causes don't make war justifiable. There is only one justification for war and that is to defend yourself."

"If what we are engaged in is a crusade to spread democracy by means of fire and the sword then we are violating our own principles. Democracy will not happen when only despotism has come before."

What's missing from the article is Keyes' view that the war in Iraq is, indeed, justifiable for protecting this nation. He even says it didn't matter if the intelligence data on Iraq is correct or not, so long as the president believes it is.

He has recently defended the president on the air on this very issue.

He said, "I am a conservative. I'm part of that group of conservatives in the party who is not altogether happy with G. W. Bush. I see lots of reasons to find fault with steps that he has taken in various areas, but I'll tell you one thing: I think it's time that everybody in this country understand that when we are faced with a threat to our very survival, we put aside other things and we focus on the fact that we have at the helm somebody who is--even if, let us say for a minute that Iraq was a mistake, as some people are trying to argue. I'd rather have a president who errs on the side of defending this country, and going after our enemies, than somebody like John Kerry who wants to sit on his butt and does nothing while Americans die. And I think that's the key issue here."

http://renewamerica.us/archives/media/interviews/04_03_30hannity.htm

237 posted on 08/06/2004 6:10:21 PM PDT by Gelato
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