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When Reagan revolutionary and conservative icon Jack Kemp died in 2009, Ron Paul paid tribute on the House floor:
Madam Speaker, I support H.Res. 401, which honors the legacy of former Representative Jack Kemp. I became friends with Jack when we served together in the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1985…
In his later years, Jack was critical of the idea that the best way to promote human liberty was through an aggressively militaristic foreign policy. In his 1996 campaign for Vice President, Jack attacked the Clinton Administration’s aggressive foreign policy, famously quipping that the United States government should not “bomb before breakfast.” In my last conversation with Jack, he shared with me his opposition to the Iraq war…
Indeed. Wrote Kemp on January 21, 2003:
President Bush has played his cards well on Iraq, and we are so close to victory that it would be a tragedy if a few War Hawks pushed us into an unnecessary invasion and occupation of an Arab country. Much of the world believes the United States will go to war with Iraq no matter what Iraq does, no matter what the U.N. inspectors find. They believe this because they think, in the words of columnist Georgie Anne Geyer, that invading Iraq is not about weapons of mass destruction but rather “it’s the first step in remaking the entire Middle East.” I worry that the United States would be viewed as the aggressor if it undertakes military action in Iraq without providing clear and convincing evidence that Iraq has a nuclear weapons program or retains significant chem-bio weapons stocks that threaten its neighbors.
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