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Article: Sometimes it helps to get outraged: David Bonior is passionate about issues. That's one of the reasons he visited Iraq. Now he's on the receiving end of a lot of anger. (Cover Story).
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 25, 2002
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Representative David Bonior is different. In this era of blow-dried politicians--where each focus-group-tested phrase is precision-tuned to achieve maximum palatability with the broadest possible audience--the 13-term Michigan Democrat evokes strong, almost visceral, reactions.
He's a divider, not a uniter.
The latest case in point: How better to infuriate vast numbers of Americans than to tour Baghdad on the eve of a U.S. war with Iraq? That's precisely what Bonior and colleagues Jim McDermott, D-Wash., and Mike Thompson, D-Calif., did earlier this month on a three-day visit to Saddam Hussein's domain. The trip was sponsored by the Interfaith Network of ...