(Republican) Buchanan's Iraq remark draws skeptical laughs (from veterans)

[deadparrot]

PALMETTO -- Republican Vern Buchanan was interrupted by laughter during a debate before a group of veterans Thursday when he insisted that the White House has a strategy for the war in Iraq.

Although Buchanan has won the endorsement of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, most of the crowd of about 100 veterans at the Manatee Civic Center were either wearing stickers touting Democrat Christine Jennings or seemed to support her.

After the hour-long debate sponsored by the Southwest Florida Veterans Coalition, Buchanan said the crowd was dominated by Jennings supporters and didn't reflect the 106,000 veterans living in the 13th Congressional District, whom he expected to favor him at the polls Tuesday.

Buchanan had objected to Jennings' repeating her frequent charge that the Bush administration doesn't have a strategy for winning the war.

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[NOLADEM]

1. This should happen every day, and it would if they didnt pre-screen Repube audiences

Bushco events would be hilarious if they didn't insure everyone attending a Bush rally had water on the brain.

It would come to resemble a uh......uh......uh, what's that word? A uh...DEMOCRACY, that's it, a democracy. I knew it would come to me.

[MissMillie]

2. When all else fails...

...when they're laughing at you.... and you can't score any points any other way....


elude to the attacks of 9/11.