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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 04:09 PM Feb 2015

Did the Democrats who voted for the IWR do so because...

Take your pick or pick "other" and provide your rationalization..err...reason.


6 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
It was patriotic?
0 (0%)
It was just the right thing to do?
0 (0%)
It was politically expedient?
6 (100%)
They were stupid enough to believe Bush/Cheney lies?
0 (0%)
They wanted to prove they aren't pacifists?
0 (0%)
The wanted to prove they aren't liberals?
0 (0%)
They were voting for what the people wanted?
0 (0%)
They have an abiding dislike of Arabs?
0 (0%)
They had a bad hangover?
0 (0%)
Other
0 (0%)
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Did the Democrats who voted for the IWR do so because... (Original Post) Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 OP
simple marym625 Feb 2015 #1
Money grubbing sellouts. JEB Feb 2015 #2
I gave 'stupid' some love Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2015 #3
Other. They didn't want to be labeled as soft on terror, at that time it was all terror all the time Autumn Feb 2015 #4
Addendum: Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #5

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
3. I gave 'stupid' some love
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 04:24 PM
Feb 2015

because I suppose there were a mix of 'stupid/gullible' types as well as politically expedient types, and everybody else seems to be going with politically expedient.

Autumn

(45,109 posts)
4. Other. They didn't want to be labeled as soft on terror, at that time it was all terror all the time
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 04:29 PM
Feb 2015

Or they were snorting coke off Dick Cheneys ass. I don't have a clue. We knew it was bullshit, they had to have known but none of them will come clean on their reasons, to do so would show them for what they really are.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
5. Addendum:
Sun Feb 22, 2015, 04:59 PM
Feb 2015
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Scientific surveys of Iraqi deaths resulting from the first four years of the Iraq War found that between 151,000 to over one million Iraqis died as a result of conflict during this time. A later study, published in 2011, found that approximately 500,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the conflict since the invasion. Counts of deaths reported in newspapers collated by projects like the Iraq Body Count project found 174,000 Iraqis reported killed between 2003 and 2013, with between 112,000-123,000 of those killed being civilian noncombatants.
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