In the 2006 elections, Indiana citizens will be able to vote again for our representatives in Congress. I hope we will all look for and avidly support candidates who had sense enough to recognize at the war’s outsetthat it was an illegal, preemptive action with questionable justifications; candidates who were ethical enough and courageous enough to consistently and continually speak out against the war and to demonstrate against it, even when it was not in fashion and not supported by the polls.
We do not need to elect more ethically-challenged, poll-driven candidates who only follow the latest fashion. We need to look for candidates who have insight, courage, and a conscience. And to find those candidates we may need to look beyond the predictable, recycled candidates the parties will offer us in the primaries. We, too, need to have our own sense of ethics and conscience in deciding who merits our vote.
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Zae Munn
212 Marquette Avenue
South Bend, IN 46617