Inside Politics (CNN) snippet - 1999-03-25
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[0:00] building wealth of the country. But the
[0:02] fact is partisan politics plays much
[0:04] more of a role in foreign policy debate
[0:06] than that slogan would suggest. When FDR
[0:09] in 1940 wanted the draft extended, when
[0:11] all of Europe was engulfed in war, he
[0:13] got it passed in the House by one vote.
[0:15] In 1952, in the middle of the Korean
[0:17] War, the Republicans ran against
[0:19] President Truman's conduct of the war.
[0:21] Democrats were constantly lobbying uh
[0:23] attacks Nixon and Reagan for their
[0:25] conduct of foreign policy, even when
[0:28] Americans were in harm's way. And I
[0:30] think what you see now are a lot of
[0:31] political figures sort of positioning
[0:33] themselves to say, "Yeah, well, we
[0:34] support the troops," which politically
[0:36] is a no-brainer, but laying markers down
[0:38] in case something goes wrong so they can
[0:40] say, "I told you so."
[0:41] >> And yet, Jeff, you don't have a straight
[0:43] party line view on this, do you?
[0:45] >> No, you don't. In fact, uh you you saw
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