Rep/Dem Quote Guessing! (warning, politics/Iraq)
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:18 pm
Okay, so the way it goes, for each quote, you gotta guess whether it was made by a Demorcat, or a Republican.
Warning, it's hard to tell on a couple of them.
Answers at the bottom - I got most of them wrong my first try, I hope you guys do better.
1) I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
2) Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that. ... I believe in negotiated solutions to international conflict. This is, unfortunately, not going to be the case in this situation where Saddam Hussein has been a repeat offender, ignoring the international community's requirement that he come clean with his weapons program.
3) I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.
4) Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
5) There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it.
6) We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.
7) It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so.
8) I mean, we have three different countries that, while they all present serious problems for the United States -- they're dictatorships, they're involved in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- you know, the most imminent, clear and present threat to our country is not the same from those three countries. I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country.
9) Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President, or the credibility to be elected President.
10) I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.
11) Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
12) We must combat an unholy axis of new threats from terrorists, international criminals, and drug traffickers. ... Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation's wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
13) The threat from Iraq is real, and it cannot be permanently contained. For as long as Saddam Hussein is in power in Baghdad, he will seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. We have no doubt that these deadly weapons are intended for use against the United States and its allies. Consequently, we believe we must directly confront Saddam, sooner rather than later. Mr. President, all indications are that in the interest of our own national security, Saddam Hussein must be removed from power.
14) YES (voting for or against the use of US Armed Forces against Iraq)
15) YES (voting for or against the implementation of the Patriot Act)
16) YES, AGAIN (voting for or against reauthorizing the Patriot Act)
Okay, got all that?
Now, for the answers!
1) Nancy Pelosi, 1998; http://www.house.gov/pelosi/priraq1.htm
2) Nancy Pelosi, 2002; http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=375
3) Nancy Pelosi, 2002; http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin ... 002_record
4) Hilary Clinton, 2001; http://www.wavsource.com/news/20010911a.htm
5) Howard Dean, 2002; http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_092902.pdf
6) Harry Reid, 2002; http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin ... 002_record
7) John Kerry, 2003; http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030331&s=lizza033103
8) John Edwards, 2002; http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/24/le.00.html
9) John Kerry, 2003; http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec03/ ... rmat=print
10) John Kerry, 2002; http://www.johnkerry.com/news/speeches/ ... _1009.html
11) Al Gore, 2002; http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... text_x.htm
12) Bill Clinton, 1998; http://clinton5.nara.gov/textonly/WH/SO ... dress.html
13) Joseph Lieberman, Jesse Helms, John McCain, et al, 2001; http://www.house.gov/ford/12_06_01a.htm
14) Hilary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, Harry Reid, et al, 2002; http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00237
15) Hilary Clinton, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Edward Kennedy, et al, 2001; http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00313
16) http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00029
Damnit, now I'm all depressed. Tell me again, aside from who's currently in power, what's the difference between Democrats and Republicans?
It's hard to tell anymore.
Warning, it's hard to tell on a couple of them.
Answers at the bottom - I got most of them wrong my first try, I hope you guys do better.
1) I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
2) Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that. ... I believe in negotiated solutions to international conflict. This is, unfortunately, not going to be the case in this situation where Saddam Hussein has been a repeat offender, ignoring the international community's requirement that he come clean with his weapons program.
3) I applaud the President on focusing on this issue and on taking the lead to disarm Saddam Hussein. ... Others have talked about this threat that is posed by Saddam Hussein. Yes, he has chemical weapons, he has biological weapons, he is trying to get nuclear weapons.
4) Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
5) There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it.
6) We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.
7) It is the duty of any president, in the final analysis, to defend this nation and dispel the security threat. Saddam Hussein has brought military action upon himself by refusing for 12 years to comply with the mandates of the United Nations. The brave and capable men and women of our armed forces and those who are with us will quickly, I know, remove him once and for all as a threat to his neighbors, to the world, and to his own people, and I support their doing so.
8) I mean, we have three different countries that, while they all present serious problems for the United States -- they're dictatorships, they're involved in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- you know, the most imminent, clear and present threat to our country is not the same from those three countries. I think Iraq is the most serious and imminent threat to our country.
9) Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President, or the credibility to be elected President.
10) I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.
11) Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power. We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
12) We must combat an unholy axis of new threats from terrorists, international criminals, and drug traffickers. ... Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation's wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.
13) The threat from Iraq is real, and it cannot be permanently contained. For as long as Saddam Hussein is in power in Baghdad, he will seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. We have no doubt that these deadly weapons are intended for use against the United States and its allies. Consequently, we believe we must directly confront Saddam, sooner rather than later. Mr. President, all indications are that in the interest of our own national security, Saddam Hussein must be removed from power.
14) YES (voting for or against the use of US Armed Forces against Iraq)
15) YES (voting for or against the implementation of the Patriot Act)
16) YES, AGAIN (voting for or against reauthorizing the Patriot Act)
Okay, got all that?
Now, for the answers!
1) Nancy Pelosi, 1998; http://www.house.gov/pelosi/priraq1.htm
2) Nancy Pelosi, 2002; http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=375
3) Nancy Pelosi, 2002; http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin ... 002_record
4) Hilary Clinton, 2001; http://www.wavsource.com/news/20010911a.htm
5) Howard Dean, 2002; http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/face_092902.pdf
6) Harry Reid, 2002; http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin ... 002_record
7) John Kerry, 2003; http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030331&s=lizza033103
8) John Edwards, 2002; http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/24/le.00.html
9) John Kerry, 2003; http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/dec03/ ... rmat=print
10) John Kerry, 2002; http://www.johnkerry.com/news/speeches/ ... _1009.html
11) Al Gore, 2002; http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... text_x.htm
12) Bill Clinton, 1998; http://clinton5.nara.gov/textonly/WH/SO ... dress.html
13) Joseph Lieberman, Jesse Helms, John McCain, et al, 2001; http://www.house.gov/ford/12_06_01a.htm
14) Hilary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, Harry Reid, et al, 2002; http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00237
15) Hilary Clinton, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Edward Kennedy, et al, 2001; http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00313
16) http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00029
Damnit, now I'm all depressed. Tell me again, aside from who's currently in power, what's the difference between Democrats and Republicans?
It's hard to tell anymore.