Colorado Senate Debate: on War & Peace

Pete Coors: Support adding more troops, oppose setting a war deadline

If the military was to ask Congress for more troops (in Iraq), I'd be the first to step up and say, 'You've got it,' Coors said, adding that it would be a mistake to set a deadline on when to bring U.S. troops home. Source: Colorado Senate Debate in Rocky Mountain News Oct 30, 2004

Ken Salazar: Bush was not for a Department of Homeland Security

Q: Kerry said "this was the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time." Do you agree with that?

A: I wouldn't have chosen those same words. The reality of it is that if you look at the time before 9/11, that we knew that we were involved in dealing with the greatest threat that America has seen in modern history, and that's the whole issue of terrorism. Look at the Hart-Rodman report that came out long before 9/11, and they said we were going to be attacked here at the homeland and that we needed to create a Department of Homeland Security. And yet what happened? The nation slept. Washington slept on that issue. I was in a meeting with Bush and with Secretary Ridge some six months after 9/11 occurred, and they were still in a position that we did not need to have a Department of Homeland Security. Washington has acted with the kind of urgency to deal with the issue of global terrorism in an effective way.

Source: Colorado Senate Debate on Meet the Press Oct 10, 2004

Ken Salazar: We have a mess on our hands in Iraq

SALAZAR: I would have voted for the resolution to give Bush the authority to move forward. The most important question to me is we in Iraq today and how do we move forward in Iraq, and the way we've got to move forward in Iraq is with a plan that's going to bring stability to the country and allow us to accomplish the mission. I agree with Sen. Lugar & with Sen. McCain and others who have been critical of what's happening in Iraq and we have a mess on our hands, but we need to figure out the plan on how exactly we're going to move forward. I have a plan on how we're going to do that.

COORS: We have an enemy who is a horrific enemy. These are barbaric people who want to destroy our civilization. Every vote, you go with the best intelligence you have. I don't think it's appropriate today to second-guess what decision would be made today based on the information we have. I suspect that given what we know today, there would be a much different outcome than we had a couple of years ago.

Source: Colorado Senate Debate on Meet the Press Oct 10, 2004

Pete Coors: Go with the best intelligence you have

Source: [Xref Salazar] Colorado Senate Debate on Meet the Press Oct 10, 2004

The above quotations are from Colorado Senate Debates, Oct. 10 and Oct. 30, 2004. Click here for definitions & background information on War & Peace. Click here for more quotes by Pete Coors on War & Peace. Click here for more quotes by Ken Salazar on War & Peace.
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