Standing on One Principle, Voting on Another (John Warner, R-Betrayus)

[deminks]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091902153.html

To paraphrase the immortal words of John Kerry, Sen. John Warner actually did vote to shorten the Iraq war before he voted to lengthen it.

Just two months ago, the courtly Virginia Republican went to the Senate floor and sided with his Democratic colleague from the commonwealth, Jim Webb, on a plan that would shorten troop deployments in Iraq. Yesterday, he went to the same place to announce that he would now vote against the same bill.

"I endorsed it," Warner said. "I intend now to cast a vote against it."

With those dozen words, the former chairman of the Armed Services Committee put a surprise end to the latest efforts in Congress to limit the Iraq war.

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But then, Warner explained how officials at the Pentagon had convinced him that Webb was wrong to try to extend troops' rest times. "I say to my good friend from Virginia, I agree with the principles that you've laid down in your amendment, but," he concluded, "I regret to say that I've been convinced by those in the professional uniform."

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You make your bed with liars, you sleep in it, John Warner.

[TwilightGardener]

1. He is an awful man. I take back all of my fond "statesman" comments--

he's as devious and evil as the rest of them. No decency.