Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Dianne Feinstein accommodating Bush again. Somehow this "extreme San Francisco liberal" as fox news likes to call her flies under the radar of her own constituents. Absolutely amazing how she got reelected out there considering her positions and her votes lately.


Feinstein supported the Iraq war resolution in the vote of October 11, 2002; she has claimed that she was misled by President Bush on the reasons for going to war. However, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter has stated that Feinstein in summer 2002 acknowledged to him that the Bush administration had not provided any convincing intelligence to back up its claims about the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.

In May 2007, Feinstein voted for an Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill which continued to fund the Iraq occupation without firm timetables for withdrawal.

Senator Feinstein was the original Democratic cosponsor of a bill to extend the USA PATRIOT Act. In a December 2005 statement, Senator Feinstein stated, "I believe the Patriot Act is vital to the protection of the American people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein