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udall apologizes for comments on slain hostages
AP ^ | Sep 8, 2014

Posted on 09/08/2014 7:15:06 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

Edited on 09/08/2014 7:27:26 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Sen. Mark Udall on Monday apologized for saying that two reporters beheaded by militants in the Middle East would agree that the United States should not "be impulsive" in responding to their deaths.

Udall, a Democrat, made the comments in an untelevised debate with challenger Rep. Cory Gardner on Saturday night in the western Colorado town of Grand Junction. Udall has been criticized by Republicans for saying the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which currently controls much of Iraq's heartland, is not an imminent threat to the United States. At the debate, he argued that the two American journalists whose beheadings it filmed and released would agree with him.


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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; markudall; udall
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To: firebrand; All

There are two Democrat senators and 2 RINOs, that I would like to see lose more than Udall; Landrieu in LA and Begich in AK; Cochran in MS and McConnell in KY.


21 posted on 09/10/2014 7:11:43 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've alwaerys been crazy, but, that's the only thing that has kept) me from going insane.)
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To: Din Maker

I know. They’re bad. And Franken.


22 posted on 09/10/2014 7:27:07 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Jet Jaguar

How refreshing it is, to hear dems saying the stupid stuff.


23 posted on 09/10/2014 7:29:16 AM PDT by grania
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