Amusing quote, 5/20/1999

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From the Congressional Record:

"Every time the President had a personal political tragedy, we went into Iraq four different times. Let us not forget the hasty decision to go into the Sudan and bomb an aspirin factory."

Randy "Duke" Cunningham, on the battle to stop the bloodshed in Yugoslavia.

Some other interesting points he made "supporting Clinton during a time of war" (same speech):

"Look at history, and I met with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who I disagree with probably more than I agree, but one thing I respected about Reverend Jackson was not necessarily that he brought our prisoners back, that was good, but his ability to place himself in the shoes of either side of an argument. Even if he disagrees with one side or another, he understands that before someone can ever have a solution that they have to understand the feelings and what is in the mind and the heart of both sides, or there is no choice whatsoever."

"There are a lot of people that are not Mujahedin and Hamas, that are fighting for their lives, and if we look into the eyes of those children, we should have as much sympathy for those children and the innocent civilians on the Albanian side and the Serb side of the innocent people that are being killed because of war. That is important also."

"All of this, and they say, DUKE, you are a hawk. I am not a hawk, Madam Speaker. I am a dove, but I like to be a well-armed dove."

"I was in a group yesterday that wants to increase prostate cancer research by $100 million total. Madam Speaker, we cannot do that by spending $50 billion in Kosovo. We spent $16 billion thus far in Bosnia and we are only supposed to be there 1 year, $16 billion."

"If you killed my children or my wife or my mother or my father or my in-laws, it would take a long time and a whole lot of psychologists to sit me down next to the people that I felt had done that. It is going to take a long time of work to make that happen."

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