The Los Angeles Times: on War & Peace
Al Gore:
Israel: support full UN participation
Gore reminded some 2,000 AIPAC delegates that he has spoken to the UN Security Council, and he said he privately advocated for Israel’s full UN participation with Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Source: Sandra Sobieraj, Associated Press, in L.A. Times
May 23, 2000
Al Gore:
Iraq: support Saddam’s opposition, until he’s gone
Gore said he had met--and will meet again next month--with Iraqi opposition forces in order to “see Saddam Hussein gone.” In the next meeting, Gore said, “I will encourage them to further unite in their
efforts against Saddam.” He said, “We have made it clear that it is our policy to see Saddam Hussein gone.”
Source: Sandra Sobieraj, Associated Press, in L.A. Times
May 23, 2000
Al Gore:
Renounce policy of holding US citizens as enemy combatants
Gore said Bush should renounce his policy, which has been used twice, of indefinitely detaining American citizens that the president designates “enemy combatants.” Gore said the suspected Al Qaeda members held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be allowed
to petition for status as prisoners of war, and he argued that Congress should authorize any military tribunals used against suspected terrorists. Bush has asserted the right to try suspected terrorists before such tribunals but has not yet done so.
Source: Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times
Nov 10, 2003
Donald Trump:
The war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake
Trump and Jeb Bush encapsulated the GOP's long-running schism between its establishment wing and its rebellious insurgency in a single raw and unusually personal exchange over the war in Iraq and the legacy of the
George W. Bush era. "The war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake," said Trump. "They lied," Trump continued. "They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none."
Source: Los Angeles Times on 2016 presidential hopefuls
Feb 13, 2016
George W. Bush:
Israel: America should be a stronger friend
"In recent times, Washington has tried to make Israel conform to its own plans and timetables," the Texas governor told an audience of more than 1,000 at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "But this is not the path to
peace." Bush repeated his vow to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. Bush also said that Iran should be held responsible for the treatment of the 13 Iranian Jews imprisoned in that country on espionage charges.
Source: T. Christian Miller; L.A. Times
May 23, 2000
John McCain:
Distrust Milosevic, and Verify
Milosevic's word is not his bond. We will have to monitor his compliance with the terms of the agreement very closely. We should adhere to a variation of an old Reagan maxim: distrust and verify. NATO's leaders must retain the political will necessary to
resume full-scale operations should Milosevic revert to form and violate the terms of the agreement. NATO must be prepared to instantly punish even small violations of the accord or else risk losing in peace the goals we went to war to secure.
Source: Los Angeles Times "Distrust Milosevic"
Jun 6, 1999
Mike Bloomberg:
Iraq war was a mistake based on faulty intelligence
Bloomberg said he had no regrets over supporting the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. "I don't live in a regret world, and I didn't make the decision," the former New York mayor told The Times. "America wanted to go to war, but it turns out it was based on
faulty intelligence, and it was a mistake," Bloomberg said. "But I think the people that made the mistake did it honestly, and it's a shame, because it's left us entangled, and it's left the Middle East in chaos through today."
Source: Los Angeles Times on 2020 Presidential Hopefuls
Jan 6, 2020
Pat Buchanan:
No all-out terror war: do the job and then exit
What took place [in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack] was an atrocity. What is coming may qualify as tragedy. For the mass murder of our citizens has filled this country with a terrible resolve that could lead it to plunge headlong into an all-out
war against despised Arab and Islamic regimes that turns into a war of civilizations, with the United States almost alone. When our Marines were massacred [in Beirut], Reagan did not send a mighty army to avenge them.
He used US power to exact a price, then extricated us from that war. There is no vital American interest at risk in all these religious, territorial and tribal wars from Algeria to Afghanistan.
Let us pay back those who did this, then let us extricate ourselves. Either America finds an exit strategy from empire, or we lose our republic.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed page
Sep 18, 2001
Pat Buchanan:
Avoid slaughtering innocents or more terrosism will follow
We are told the first target of America's wrath will be the Taliban. But if we rain fire and death on the Afghan nation, a proud, brave people we helped liberate from Soviet bondage, we too will slaughter hundreds of innocents.
And as they count their dead, the Afghans too will unite in moral outrage; and, as they cannot fight cruise missiles or Stealth bombers, they will attack our diplomats, businessmen, tourists.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed page
Sep 18, 2001
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