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Article: Feinstein Faces a Double-Team.(both of Dianne Feinstein's political opponents attack her support for the Colombian military aid plan)
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- The Progressive
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- August 1, 2000
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Outside a San Francisco drug treatment center on a breezy late spring day, Medea Benjamin, the California Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, attacked incumbent Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, for backing a $1.7 billion military aid package to fund the Colombian government.
The U.S. government should not be pouring billions into the bottomless pit of misguided foreign drug wars, Benjamin said. It should be addressing the economic and social pathologies that create the demand for drugs on the streets of American cities. "Instead of a drug war in Colombia, we need to be funding drug rehabilitation in San Francisco," she explained, making the ...