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In reply to the discussion: Why on Earth should we nominate a presidential candidate who voted for war with Iraq? [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)If hundreds of thousands of Patriotic, Involved and Aware Americans did all they could to Protest that Invasion before it begun and the vote.. and continued to protest long after it began....WHY did so much of our elected officials sign off onto it. To be fair in the house...a majority of Dems voted against it. I don't remember the Senate vote...but, I remember those spirited debates between Senators Kennedy and Robert Byrd who tried to stop it. That's down the memory hole these days here on DU...but those of us who were there at the time remember it as an incredible moment in our histories...I think.
Quote from you...says it all:
" I was among those who were outraged that people who are supposed to be more politically knowledgeable and sophisticated than we had the audacity to think they could sign on to give Bush* the authority to go to war and justify that decision in words that made no sense. "