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The 1st Debate: Meet Former Sen. Mike Gravel
By Timothy V. Gatto (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
Senator Gravel, 30 seconds, please.
MR. GRAVEL: With respect to Iran, we've sanctioned them for 26 years. We've scared the bejesus out of them when the president says they're evil. Well, you know something? These things don't work, they don't work. We need to recognize them. And you know something, who is the greatest violator of the Non-Proliferation Treaty? The United States of America. We signed a pledge that we would begin to disarm, and we're not doing it. We're expanding our nukes. Who the hell are we going to nuke?
MR. WILLIAMS: Senator --
MR. GRAVEL: Tell me, Barack. Who -- Barack, who's -- who do you
want to nuke?
SEN. OBAMA: I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike, I
promise you.
MR. GRAVEL: Good, good, we're safe then for a while.
“Safe for awhile”. That about says it all. But for how long? This man gave all the right answers and brought up all of the right comments and they treated him as if he were their “entertainment”. I believe that they were really transfixed as I was that a candidate could bring out the military industrial complex and gunboat diplomacy in the short time he had to speak, and he spoke volumes. He is a former NYC cabdriver who spent 2 terms representing Alaska in the US Senate after moving there. He was the man who initiated legislation ending the draft and filibustered for four months until they passed the Alaska pipeline bill. He was also seen talking in french to a French news agency after the debate. This isn’t the last we will hear of Sen. Mike Gravel. Maybe he’s just what this nation needs right now, if we can get him to temper it down a bit...just a bit.
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