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  Hawk Fights Hawk for Mass. Senate Seat
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Last EditedCraverguy  Apr 03, 2012 10:36am
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AuthorJohn V. Walsh
News DateTuesday, April 3, 2012 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe battle for Senate has been joined in Massachusetts between Scott Brown, a hawk, and Elizabeth Warren, another hawk. Warren began as the darling of the “progressives” here, but as her stance on Iran, the ongoing wars, and the plight of the Palestinians becomes known, the bloom is off the rose.

On the first day of her campaign, Warren was criticized far and wide, even among those who sympathized with her, for failing to answer questions from the press with anything but the most equivocal of bromides. There was one exception, however. She was asked, in what sounded like a planted question, how she felt about the Palestinian effort to put a petition for statehood before the U.N. General Assembly. Warren’s answer was crisp and certain. She opposed it.

Warren is no anti-interventionist. Here are some examples from her website (emphasis mine).

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Warren’s campaign is increasingly sappy — clear evidence that she does not want a campaign of issues. Her interventionist proclivities are detestable to a big chunk of voters whom she needs. In one appeal for donations, Warren pointed out her links to Girl Scouts and their cookie sales! Given her desire to tighten the sanctions that make life increasingly difficult for the children of Iran, she might adopt as a slogan “Let them eat Girl Scout cookies.”
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