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Originally Posted by Dvae
People have short memories. Following are 2 examples I'm sure there are more.
From the NY Times
Jim Wright, the Democratic House speaker during Ronald Reagan?s presidency, was accused of interfering when he met with opposing leaders in Nicaragua?s contra war. Three House Democrats went to Iraq in 2002 before President George W. Bush?s invasion to try to head off war. And Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, went to Syria in 2007 to meet with President Bashar al-Assad against the wishes of the Bush administration, which was trying to isolate him.
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Exactly, they all think they are doing the right thing in the process, it has nothing to do with partisanism. The problem is moves like this divides a nation and does lasting damage, more than what would have in the initial problem in most cases.
trying to turn this into a debate over democrats vs republicans is ridiculous though.