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| | Lame Democrats and Tame Republicans; No Leaders in Congress Against This War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | We hear the same rhetoric today, but in the past there was an important difference: then, the critics of the war did not just talk, they acted using the prerogatives the Constitution gave them as members of Congress to pursue their convictions in legislation. |
 | | Republican John Sherman Cooper, Ky., joined with Democrat Frank Church from Idaho, and liberals James McGovern, D-S.D., and Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., crafted separate amendments to annual defense spending bills to bring U.S. troops home by a date certain. |
 | | More conscious of the meaning of the term leader, Senators John McCain, Ariz., Lindsey Graham, S.C., and John Warner, Va., introduced amendments to impede torture by Americans, but, like the Democrats, these senators failed to bring their measures to a vote. |
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