They weren’t, but even if they had been, the downings still would have violated international law. planes hit Saddam Hussein’s air-defense positions. His selection defied the conventional wisdom that the vice-presidential candidate should provide political and geographic balance: We were from neighboring states. All of us did reasonably well.
On the other hand, hardly anybody knew of the problems with Lewis’s testimony, and D’Amato received a lot of publicit With three weeks to go, he was keeping the race unpredictable. With the most Democratic Congress in decades, Lyndon Johnson got Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor, but didn’t even try to insure the rest of those without coverage. Shortly after the election, Tom DeLay and company began roping in the moderate Republicans.
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