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Sunday, September 8, 2013

PAUL: How do you ask a man to be the first man to die for a mistake?

PAUL: How do you ask a man to be the first man to die for a mistake?

Even if not a war in the ‘classic sense,’ it would be a mistake

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“I think that the president fundamentally misunderstands the constitutional powers,” Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said Sunday.” “The checks and balances come from independent branches of government.” (Associated Press)

In 1971, Navy Lt. John F. Kerry asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

How do you ask a man to be the first man to die for a mistake?


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This week, Secretary of State John F. Kerry came before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make his case for war with Syria — a war that a majority of Americans don’t want, the administration still can’t clearly justify and for which Mr. Kerry himself made a very poor case.

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