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Gore served "as a reporter, not as a combatant," observed Fortune 's Jeffrey Birnbaum on Fox News Sunday . Gore "went to Vietnam, but as journalist, not as an infantryman," agreed USA Today 's Susan Page on CNN's Late Edition . Bush also points out that he tried to volunteer for a Guard program that sent several pilots to Southeast Asia.
The quantity of drugs dictated that he be tried as a dealer; the punishment for dealing in Malaysia is death.
Anyone who's tried to write a screenplay knows the difficulty of writing a climax.
I tried your experiment.
Robert Taft tried to keep the United States out of World War II in the late 1930s and then sought to restrain America's overseas commitments in the early Cold War years.