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If you want to boil the Democratic primary race in the 3rd District down to one issue, it would be the Iraq War.
Ed Fallon has opposed the Iraq invasion from the start and has strongly opposed the war at every chance. When serving in the Iowa House, Rep. Fallon co-sponsored HR 17, along with 20 other Democrats, which called the President to not make a preemptive, unilateral attack against Iraq. Fallon had the judgement to know that invading Iraq would destablize the Middle East, hamper our efforts of bringing Osama bin Laden to justice, and would cost trillions of dollars and cause further federal budget deficits. Fallon has since signed on to the Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq.
Leonard Boswell, on the other hand, voted in favor of the war in Iraq and was a strong supporter of the Bush administration's failed policy up until he learned that Fallon was going to run against him. Boswell began to support an end to the war in Iraq in December, after it was becoming clear that Fallon was preparing to challenge him.
In an interview with the Des Moines Register, Boswell still uses Bush's untruthful arguments for going to war in Iraq.
On Tuesday, Democrats in Iowa's 3rd District have a choice. They can vote for someone to represent them who has the judgement to make the tough decisions and wants to bring new energy to Congress or they can vote for someone who clings to the past and only changes when they are forced to do so.
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Fallon Stood Up Against Iraq Invasion, Boswell Did Not
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Good blog. It's also interesting to note that Boswell, by his own admission, realized in 2005 that the war was a mistake, but it took him 2 more years to change his vote!
Boswell fought in Vietnam. He knew that regardless of what the troops were doing in Iraq, that we had to fund them to keep them safe. There's a distinct difference between ending the war in Iraq, and ending it safely. Some of us care more about human lives than we do politics. Boswell's a dependable human being, not a glory seeking flake like Fallon.
You can fund a safe withdrawal of troops. It is ridiculous to accuse someone of just stop payments and leaving thousands of troops to fend for themselves on their own.
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