Buchanan's Iraq remark draws skeptical laughs from veterans

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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.

"But there is a strategy and it needs to be flexible," he said.

Some of the veterans started chuckling, and Buchanan had to stop speaking after telling them that he expected the White House would adopt a more flexible strategy.

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1. K & R

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2. There is a republican strategy

Every American death will either be ignored or downplayed. Therein lies buchanan's implied flexibility. bush has no goal, no objective, no plan; except to pass on his overflowing toilet to his successor.

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3. The V.F.W. supports the war...

i am a member and do not support the war. members were not asked their opinion. a small convention decided that. the membership at large is split on Iraq, but agree on the war in afghanistan.

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4. In Illinois The VFW Came Out Against Duckworth And Endorsed Repug....

Roskam. What happened to the VFW. Roskam isn't even a veteran. Why aren't they supporting their own?