Todd Epp is pressuring Stephanie Herseth to oppose the Iraq War:
As a supporter of yours during both the 2002 and 2004 elections and as one of your constituents, I urge you to join Rep. Murtha and his considered position against the Iraq War. To continue supporting President Bush will ultimately put you not just on the wrong side of your constituents, but on the wrong side of history--and the facts--as well.
I don't do this very often, but I must respectfully challenge Mr. Epp on one premise: that "the American people were mislead by the Bush Administration". As myself and my colleagues here at SDP have noted, if that's true then it also means that Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Madeline Albright, Sandy Berger, William Cohen, Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Bob Graham, Hillary Clinton, and Jay Rockefeller also "misled" the American people. Norman Podhoretz made this argument quite clearly in his recent piece in Commentary. As Jon Schaff noted, the Republicans have truth on their side. That some intelligence was flawed is apparent, but to assert that we were misled or that the President lied about intelligence is wrong.
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