Dick Armey
A few weeks ago, House Majority Leader and Texas Republican Dick Armey came out against the noxious spy-on-your-neighbor TIPS program.
Today Armey was quoted as being in favor of lifting the Cuba embargo and being opposed to an Iraq war. These are truly strange days, when you have a Democratic Senator, Joe Lieberman, trying to out hawk Bush on Iraq while a powerful Republican acts like Ted Kennedy…
In a vivid sign of waning support for the economic embargo on Cuba, House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) said he believes that the United States should open trade with the Communist regime and that he has backed the restrictions on travel and trade only out of loyalty to two Cuban American members of the House.
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In the US, the House majority leader and one of Mr Bush’s fellow Texas Republicans, Dick Armey, argued that Saddam Hussein’s conduct did not constitute provocation, and that a US attack would be a violation of international law
Campaigning for the mid-term elections in Des Moines, Mr Armey said: “If we act against Saddam Hussein, as obnoxious as he is, without proper provocation, we will not have the support of other nation states … it would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.”