>From a speech by the president: "...So, now, we face a choice. Do we leave when the job gets tough or when the job is well done? Do we invite...mass suffering or do we leave in a way that gives [them] a decent chance to survive? Recently, Gen. Colin Powell said this about our choices...: 'Because things get difficult, you don't cut and run. You work the problem and try to find a correct solution.'...
So let us finish the work we set out to do. Let us demonstrate to the world, as generations of Americans have done before us, that when Americans take on a challenge, they do the job right." >From a speech on the Senate floor: "I must say I have also been jarred by the reactions of many of our colleagues in the U.S. Senate and in the Congress. I am jarred by the extraordinary sense of panic that seems to be rushing through this deliberative body, and by the strident cries for a quick exit, an immediate departure.... "We must recognize that any decision that we make...is not just a decision to get our troops home. It is not just a decision about looking out for the interests of the United States. There are extraordinary ramifications attached to the choice that we make in the next days in the Congress and in this country.... "...We are in a situation now where withdrawal would send the wrong signal.... "Rightly or wrongly, the Bush administration committed us to this operation. We, as a nation, have accepted this responsibility. We should not panic and flee when the going gets rough. If we are going to withdraw, we have an obligation to do so in a responsible manner, in a way that does not undermine the operation or leave the people to a worse fate...." These quotes are from October 1993 speeches by President Clinton and Senator John Kerry, respectively, responding to Republican calls for a quick withdrawal from Somalia. Taken from Glenn Greenwald's blog Unclaimed Territory. See the complete post, including quotes from the Republicans urging withdrawal at: http://tinyurl.com/sxlrb See the complete post, including quotes from the Republicans urging withdrawal at To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
