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Al Gore:
Don’t let OPEC take advantage of Americans
Gore said Americans “are being taken advantage of in an unfair way” by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). “The basic question is whether or not you’re going to have a president who is willing to fight for the people big oil and
foreign oil, and I’ve never hesitated to do that.” Oil prices on the international markets hit a 10-year high this week, which could undermine the economic strength that has underpinned Gore’s campaign.
Source: CNN.com coverage
Sep 20, 2000
Elizabeth Dole:
Too many politicians made responses too slow
Dole says too many politicians were involved in what should be a military campaign. She said NATO hasn't been flying as many sorties as the US did in the Persian Gulf war and that the alliance was late in targeting communications systems in the region,
allowing the Yugoslav government to continue its propaganda campaign.
Source: CNN coverage: AllPolitics
May 10, 1999
John Kasich:
Destroy ISIS, with US troops as part of coalition
Kasich said that the United States needs to get serious about creating a broader international coalition to fight ISIS--even if that means sending more US troops into Syria and Iraq. In an interview on CNN's "The Lead," Kasich faulted President Obama
for allowing US allegiances overseas to "deteriorate over time.""We have not led, and when you don't lead, you create doubt in the minds of our friends, and also, it encourages our enemies," he said. He said he'd support a larger US military presence
in the region. "The time has come to destroy ISIS as part of a coalition," Kasich said. "And if that means that US boots have to be on the ground, so be it," he said. "Because to allow this to linger, to put this off, to think that somehow this is going
to go away is naive at best."
Kasich said joining Russia in the fight against ISIS doesn't mean the US should set aside fights with Moscow over its incursion in Ukraine and its intervention in favor of Syrian leader.
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Nov 4, 2015
John Kerry:
Word "atrocity" is too strong, though it reflected anger
Kerry said that his use of the word "atrocity" was "inappropriate" and that the language he had used "reflected an anger. It was honest, but it was in anger. It was a little bit excessive." He also said he never intended to cast a negative light on the
soldiers with whom he served. In 1971, Kerry also testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and recited a litany of atrocities he said had been reported to him by other soldiers.
Source: CNN.com coverage
Apr 25, 2004
John Kerry:
Hunting Osama-not Saddam-should be priority
The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, al Qaeda. There's just no question about it. The president's misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror
harder to win. George Bush made Saddam Hussein the priority. I would have made Osama bin Laden the priority, I will finish the job in Iraq and I will refocus our energies on the real war on terror.
Source: CNN.com coverage
Sep 24, 2004
John Kerry:
Meant to bash Bush, but ending up bashing soldiers in Iraq
[The White House press secretary has criticized Kerry's comments on US soldiers as] "an absolute insult." Kerry fired back at the White House and the GOP, saying he was not disparaging U.S. soldiers. "If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more
than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy," he said. Kerry made the comments to students at Pasadena City College in California. He said: "You know, education -- if you make the most of it,
you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
A Kerry aide said that the prepared statement, which had been designed to criticize Bush, "was mangled in delivery."
Kerry was supposed to say, "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."
Source: CNN.com coverage
Nov 1, 2006
Mitt Romney:
Withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake
In Iowa on Wednesday, Romney reiterated his support for President Bush and said a withdrawal from Iraq "would be a mistake."
Source: CNN.com coverage: "Inside Politics"
Dec 22, 2006
Steve Forbes:
Supports bombing; supports arming the Kosovars
I supported the decision to bomb, and I think also we should arm the Kosovars so they can defend their homeland. And if we have to intensify the bombing, we should.
Source: CNN coverage "Inside Politics"
Mar 30, 1999
Ted Kennedy:
Fraudulent threat from Iraq was made up in Texas
Kennedy questioned how much of a threat Saddam Hussein had posed in the US fight against terrorism. "There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place
and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud," Kennedy said. He added that Bush officials employed "distortion, misrepresentation, a selection of intelligence" to justify the war.
As for the administration's current policy in Iraq, Kennedy called it "adrift." He said Bush officials had failed to account for $1.5 billion of the $4 billion the war costs each month, citing a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office.
"My belief is this money is being shuffled all around to these political leaders in all parts of the world, bribing them to send in troops." Kennedy was one of 23 senators who opposed the resolution last year authorizing Bush to go to war in Iraq.
Source: CNN.com coverage
Sep 18, 2003
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