It was his idea of turning this war into a felony that had me sit up in which MSNBC reported, “Gravel called on Congress to pass a law making it a felony to keep troops in Iraq, charging that “this war in Iraq was lost the second George W. Bush invaded Iraq under a fraudulent basis.”
Some will say this is impossible who live in the beltway environment, but as I have been looking at the Gravel’s campaign web site, the word leadership comes to mind as one reads, “In 1971, he waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon administration to cut a deal, effectively ending the draft in the United States. He is most prominently known for his release of the Pentagon Papers, the secret official study that revealed the lies and manipulations of successive U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War.” When I hear of elected officials saying something is impossible or certain issues are off the table namely impeachment, they should be looking to Mike Gravel to show them the way.
As Americans look for leaders that do mirror them, I was surprised in reading that Mike Gravel has held many positions in life. He “was a cab driver in New York City, a clerk on Wall Street and as a brakeman on the Alaska Railroad.” By going on to become a United States senator, he did become that Mr. Smith Goes to Washington persona.
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