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Professor George Fisher's op-ed in the “Portsmouth Herald” examines presidential candidates and their war voting patterns:
One question of character dominates: Where did candidates stand on the 2002 decision to wage war — and why?
The problem is not that those candidates who favored war were wrong. Yes, they were wrong to think Iraq's weapons of mass destruction threatened our security. They were wrong to think the president's plans included winning the peace.
If these candidates were simply wrong, you should question their judgment, not their character. But what if they were right? What if they doubted the justice or wisdom of war — and voted to authorize war anyway? What if they supported war because they feared seeming weak and unpresidential?
Other publications by this author
- Evidence, 2nd ed.
- Checking Candidates' Votes on War
- Federal Rules of Evidence, 2007-2008 Statutory and Case Supplement
- Historian in the Cellar
- Federal Rules of Evidence Statutory and Case Supplement 2004-2005 Edition
- Green Felt Jungle: The Story of People v. Collins
- Federal Rules of Evidence Statutory and Case Supplement. 2004-2005 edition.
- Federal Rules of Evidence Statutory and Case Supplement 2005-2006 Edition
- Historian In The Cellar
- Alcohol Monogamy: A Moral History of Anti-Drug Laws
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- George Fisher
- Stanford Law School
- fisherg@stanford.edu
- 650 723.2578