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Sen. Smith doesn't support censure of Bush
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jul 24, 2007 11:18am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Oregonian, The (Portland) |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In Sen. Gordon Smith's 1,900-word speech criticizing President Bush's Iraq policy last December, one word received the most attention:
"Criminal."
That word still looms over the Oregon Republican. On Sunday, it led Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., to suggest on national television that Smith might support his resolution to censure President Bush.
"He actually said the word 'criminal'," Feingold marveled on "Meet the Press."
Problem is, Smith has since said that his "criminal" comment was taken out of context and he wasn't calling Bush a war criminal. And Smith, who voted for the Iraq war in 2002 and publicly supported it until that December speech, won't vote to censure Bush.
"Censure won't bring our troops home, and it won't focus the mission on al-Qaida," Smith spokesman R.C. Hammond said.
Smith said in his December Senate floor speech:
"I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day," Smith said. "That is absurd. It may even be criminal."
In interviews, Smith insisted he was not saying that Bush committed a crime. He said he was alluding to a book he had read about World War I.
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