Some Republicans, driven by both politics and conscience, started to rebel. Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon withdrew his support for President Bush's Iraq war.
On the Senate floor, he said "I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs, day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal." But the defections were too few. Lawmakers continued to "support the troops" by writing the president a blank check.
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The above quotations are from Against the Tide How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President by Lincoln Chafee. Click here for other excerpts from Against the Tide How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President by Lincoln Chafee. Click here for other excerpts by Gordon Harold Smith. Click here for other excerpts by other Governors.
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