Republicans Go To War Over Iraq at Indiana Tea Party Sponsored Debate
Submitted by AnAppealToHeavenWash on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 16:55Republicans go to war over Iraq
By W James Antle III
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.
Coats disagreed. He pointedly told Hostettler, "I started every day in Germany with a collection of intelligence from the U.S., German, French, British and even countries that didn't support us. That was the evidence that was before us."
Hostettler countered that the evidence he saw as a member of the House Armed Services Committee didn't look so compelling, and ultimately no WMD were found. Hostettler pointed out that George W. Bush himself said that if he could get a "do-over" as president, he would have gotten better intelligence concerning Iraqi weapons programs.
Read more here...
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0310/0310gop...
Here is a video of the two candidates debating Iraq in February...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUW5aE-hTvc
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This is the open US Senate seat vacated by Sen. Evan Bayh.
NEO-CON anti-Gun Republican and Bailout Lobbyist Dan Coats is now Hostettler's main opposition.
Dan Coats clearly entered this race in a last ditch effort to keep Hostettler from winning it outright.
John Hostettler is the Liberty / Tea Party Candidate having supported Ron Paul and then Chuck Baldwin in 2008. He is leading in recent polls.
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Go here and get in this fight with us...
http://www.johnhostettler.com/
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he needs to get his website updated.
Is the consensus that he is pro-Liberty? If he'll post something on his website--I'll help get our YAL group at IU fired up about him...
He needs to get busy with his website:
http://www.johnhostettler.com/?page_id=9
Check back for John’s position on :
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He will be the best Senator
More anti-war than both Peter Schiff and Rand Paul. I think Rand Paul and Peter Schiff are great candidates who deserve our support.
But Hostettler will be more helpful in our fight against the neocons, because he is unabashedly anti Iraq war.
nice writeup
AnAppealToHeavenWash,
Nice writeup with good info and links.
Thank you.
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Thank W James Antle III, I just copied and pasted :-)
YAL' need to invite John Hostettler to come up to speak at the big Tom Woods event if it happens there in B-town.
I wish I was there with you all. Spent the first 18 years of my life just a mile east of campus.
Then I made the conversion from Hoosier to become a Boilermaker.
At least the Boilers made it to the NCAA South Regional this year. I will go to the Purdue/Duke sweet 16 game this Friday here in Houston.
First time in a while Ron Paul and I will be at odds with each other.
Darn congressman! The guy is a Blue Devil (so is Rand) and their team is favored to kick Purdue's tail with Hummel out for the season.
"Religious people fear hell...
...Spiritual people (including our Savior) have lived it." -my friend
Leave Us Alone and Bring the Troops Home
Thanks, it bears repeating:
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/129581
New Hampshire and Ecuador.
VERY, VERY encouraging that this is in open debate
among the candidates. YES!
Thomas Jefferson: “Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever."
Viva La Revolucion!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmaTNf4YhEs
Thanks
I think the smart money would bet that people are getting sick of the wars.
Prepare & Share the Message of Freedom through Positive-Peaceful-Activism.
Some Get Sick
Some get dead.
You can reach voters in California, here: http://consequeries.com/California-voter-guide.php
we can pray
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