Reply #3: Take Heart, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

Perhaps in the vote on the final Bill, sufficient persuasion will be brought to move these few people to a decent showing of solidarity with the people of the country and their Party, and they will clear their names of this foolishness they committed last week. There is no reason to lose hope that they will support a course that is the best one available, is supported by a landslide proportion of the people of the country, including easily nineteen in twenty of the people who express themselves in opposition to the occupation of Iraq, and is doing great political damage already to the Republicans and their administration.

"A politician pleading conscience is like a burglar pleading honesty."