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Or that Thomas Jefferson preached, in the First Inaugural Address, March 1801,
"[P]eace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."

Hey, didn't Jefferson once go to war without a formal declaration? Against some 'Mohammedan country'?

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Our lovely Ilana leaves that part of history out. Jefferson acted against the Barbary Pirates based in the Ottoman province of Tripoli, now better known as Libya, in 1801. How soon people forget. Even Jefferson had to fight against tyrants and President Bush is simply following in his predecessor's footsteps.