John Hostettler for US Senate, Indiana

Story covers Senate races in which Iraq War has become an issue among Republicans, including Rand Paul's race in Kentucky. John Hostettler sounds good on the handful of issues mentioned here. Can anybody provide more info on him?

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Republicans go to war over Iraq

By W James Antle III
web posted March 22, 2010

Iraq's recent parliamentary elections may help wind down the war. But with the midterm elections approaching, the discussion of Iraq is heating up in America's heartland.

The Indiana Senate race has become an unexpected flashpoint in the debate over whether it was wise to invade Iraq. The retiring incumbent, Sen. Evan Bayh, is a Democrat who voted to go to war. The likeliest Democrat to replace him on the ballot, Rep. Brad Ellsworth, hasn't been overly critical of the war either.

Instead a contentious exchange about Iraq broke out at the unlikeliest of places: a Tea Party-sponsored debate of the Republican candidates. Former Sen. Dan Coats, the presumed front-runner for the GOP nomination, didn't like what he heard from one of his opponents about the decision to wage preventive war with Iraq.

"I started as ambassador (to Germany) two days after 9/11," the Indianapolis Star quoted Coats as saying. "John, you and I need to have a good debate about Iraq and about weapons of mass destruction, because I fundamentally disagree with you in terms of why we went in there."

Former Rep. John Hostettler reminded the audience had been one of six House Republicans to vote against the war. At the time, he called the intelligence supporting the Bush administration's claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons program "tenuous at best." Hostettler argued that it was our leaders that failed, not the intelligence.

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