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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 12:34 PM
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25. I am not wedded to the belief that term limits are always good -
I am also not convinced that they are always bad.

Yes, we want experienced, cooler heads - so we have to take back control of the voting machines and elect cooler heads. Because we do want experience I suggested term limits of 12 or 18 years -- that is a long, long time.

The fact that Clinton was turfed out does not bother me in the least. Yes, of course, I would LOOOOOOOVE to see the big dog back in office if he was the only other option than *. Clinton's policies toward corporations are part of the reason why we are where we are today. During his watch, according to UNICEF, over 500,000 Iraqi children died due to the UN/US economic sanctions. Economic sanctions that hurt the rich - fine, but these sanctions killed the vulnerable and Clinton would not see it - still doesn't, still blames it on Saddam when the UN personnel who oversaw the Oil For Food program have said over and over that the problem was the nature of the sanctions.

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