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Vanity -- Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Not Fit to Vote for Your Young Men and Women To Go To War. Her body of thought, comments, evaluations, and demeanor all prove what I am saying.

US Senator John Kerry, the defeated Democratic presidental candidate, has blamed his failure to unseat President George W. Bush on the traditional advantage held by the president in wartime and his own failure to 'connect' with voters. 'Im not going to lick my wounds or hide under a rock and disappear. I'm going to learn,' Mr. Kerry told Newsweek magazine in his first interview since the November election. He disputed descriptions of his oratory as 'soporific' but appeared close to acknowledging not connecting with voters.'Ive had disappointments and I've learned to cope. I've lost friends, a marriage.' He then pointed...

July 27, 2004 Pg. 1 Senators Satisfied With Their 'No' Vote On Iraq ‘We were all firmly convinced we’d done the right thing’ By Lauren Shepherd By 1 a.m. that Friday morning, almost every senator had left the Capitol for home. Three Democrats, though, were still on the Senate floor, waiting for the final vote count on a resolution that would allow President Bush to launch a pre-emptive strike on Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) — had voted against the resolution along with 18 other Democrats, one independent and one...