“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”
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The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
