Lincoln Chafee in TheDailyBeast.com


On Principles & Values: Voted for Bush41 in 2004 as protest against Bush43

Those who know Chafee call him "Linc" for short. The last of a dying breed of liberal Republicans, he earned the distinction of being the only GOP senator to vote against the war in Iraq. He placed a symbolic vote for George H.W. Bush for president in 2004, as a means of expressing his disapproval of W. Later, in his time as Rhode Island governor during the Great Recession, he earned the nicknames "Governor Gump" and "Governor Grinch," the latter after a fight over what to call Christmas trees.
Source: Daily Beast e-zine on 2020 presidential hopefuls Jun 25, 2015

On War & Peace: Iraq war was on hawks' wish list; feared another Vietnam

Chafee outlined the "primary three" reasons for his decision to vote against the war. The first was his fear that it would be for the next generation what Vietnam had been for his. Second, "I had learned in the nine months of the Bush-Cheney administration prior to September 11 not to trust their word." Third, the war in Iraq had long been on the "hawks'" wish list, and a visit to the CIA convinced him "there was no intelligence" that made the case for intervention.
Source: Daily Beast e-zine on 2020 presidential hopefuls Jun 25, 2015

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