VP: Wednesday question for the candidates

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Here is the last of the questions posed by the Virginian-Pilot to the candidates:

How should the experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan guide U.S. foreign policy in the future? We have spent a half-trillion dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What should our priorities be for the future?

The responses:

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4 thoughts on “VP: Wednesday question for the candidates”

  1. These have been interesting reading. On today’s answer from Thelma Drake-I am confused by her answer: first she says it is important that “adults have the right to vote by secret ballot” and then later she writes “it is dangerous to elect or empower those who think terrorist threat is exaggerated or Americans are the first to blame for the world’s problems”. So, do other countries have the right to elect their own leaders by secret ballot or only elect leaders after they get your OK?

    For the whole series, I thought the idea was for the candidate to give their views. Ms. Drake, can you think for yourself? In these responses, you quoted Major Gen. Richard Zilmer, Sen. McCain, Pres. Kennedy, Sen. McCain(again), Pres. Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.

    Maybe this illustrates why you blindly and quietly follow Pres. Bush.

  2. Drake is nothing more than a Bush-Cheney rubberstamp.

    We need independent voices in Washington who will follow their oath–to protect the constitution NOT dismantle it. Voices who will demand accountability and represent the middle class…who have no one speaking for them in Washington.

    In this booming economy it’s only the top one percent (the ELITES that BUSH laughingly called “My Base”) that are better off.

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