Please read the following and try to determine the difference of context between the two readings.

Last week:

Mr. Daschle, addressing a union audience in Washington, said he was "saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was critical for our country."
He said yesterday that he stood by his remarks.
"For us not to even have Canada and Mexico and some of those key allies with us as we go forward is an illustration of what I was saying. We have not had the diplomatic success that many of us had hoped," he said.

Several years ago:

In September 1996, Mr. Daschle took to the Senate floor and said Saddam's "willingness to brutally attack Kurds in northern Iraq and abrogate U.N. resolutions is simply unacceptable."
"We intend to make that point clear with the use of force, with the use of legislative language and with the use of other actions that the president and the Congress have at their disposal."
In February 1998, with troops in the Persian Gulf and the threat of war rising, Mr. Daschle declared that Saddam "has to agree that there will be compliance with international law and the agreements that he signed in 1991. Period."
"We have exhausted virtually our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that, what other option is there but to force them to do so?" he said. "The answer is, we don't have another option. We have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily."

What is the main difference between then and now? Has our beloved Daschle become a pacifist? If we had exhausted all diplomatic effort in 1998, how is it unexhausted now after several more trips to the UN and several more worthless resolutions? The main difference, my friends, is that now there's a Republican in the White House. Oh, and that Saddam has continued to defy resolutions, continued to brutalize his own people including the Kurds, and has continued to build WMD, all contrary to agreements he has signed. Further, it has been revealed that his government not only houses but financially supports various terrorist groups.

Folks, this is hypocrisy at its best and most obvious. If you know any people that live in S.Dakota, please forward them this message, maybe they'll finally get it and fire this guy from office. Otherwise, he'll continue to hold the Senate hostage, and hold this great nation back every time we try to move forward.

Your source of truth,

Doug Cooke