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	<title><![CDATA[Fred Thompson: Iraq Wasn't the Key Issue in 2006]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-ortega/fred-thompson-iraq-wasnt-_b_50096.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson says that the Democratic takeover of Congress last November had <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-05-30-thompson_N.htm">nothing to do with Iraq</a>.</p>

<p>Instead, the presidential hopeful contends, out-of-control spending by Republicans and "unrestrained partisanship" were to blame. Thompson's <a href="http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10717.html">Leon Panetta-esque</a> perception of the 2006 midterm elections is, to put it mildly, just plain wrong. (But why should that surprise us? <a href="http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00237">He did vote for the war in 2002.</a>)
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<p>Here are <a href="http://pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm">the numbers to prove it</a>.</p>
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	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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