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Liberal Hall of Shame Biography from the MSNBC News website of Harball with Chris Matthews at MSNBC.COM "Matthews spent 15 years in politics and government: he worked in the White House for four years under President Jimmy Carter as a Presidential speechwriter and on the Government Reorganization Project, in the U.S. Senate for five years on the staffs of Senator Frank Moss (Utah) and Senator Edmund Muskie (Maine), and was the top aide for Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. for six years." MSNBC News Biography- Chris Matthews Appearing as a guest on the same network's "Imus in the Morning" show today, Matthews said that the Democratic primary race "sucks" now that Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts has taken the lead over former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. He said Dean was the only candidate with the "balls" to stand up to President Bush and say the Iraq war was "wrong." Meanwhile, Kerry and Sen. John Edwards of South Carolina "hid in the closet on the issue," Matthews steamed on the Imus show in front of a live audience of New Hampshire voters on the eve of their primary election. But Matthews wasn't finished venting. He argued the "frogs were right" to oppose the war, referring to the French government's refusal to join the U.S.-led coalition. He cited resigning U.S. weapons inspector David Kay's latest conclusion that Iraqi stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction – the administration's key reason for going to war – don't exist. Matthews previously had expressed support for the war and been critical of the French position. He also said Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was right when he warned that the invasion and occupation of predominantly Muslim Iraq would "create a hundred (Osama) bin Ladens." "We declared war on Islam, and it was a big mistake," Matthews said of the administration's pre-emptive strike on Iraq. Chris Matthews: 'The French were right' |
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