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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]Carolina
(6,960 posts)And yes, those of us who were here back then surely saw through the Bush lies and could not believe the alternative universe we were living in when Democrats voted aye on Bush's contrived IWR, unveiled just before the 2002 midterm elections.
Clinton, Kerry, Biden... what craven moral cowards! I remember being riveted by Robert Byrd's speech and being appalled by the nation's bloodlust all aimed at Iraq.
How could a nation the US had bombed relentlessly (surgically?!) in 1991, kept under sanctions thereafter and then bombed sporadically during the Clinton years have morphed into an imminent threat?
How did the focus shift to Iraq when 15/19 hijackers and mastermind bin Laden were Saudi and the the remaining 4 hijackers were from Yemen, Egypt & United Arab Emirates?
Why was the US suddenly worried about Iraq's chemical weapons (remember Cheney's remarks
that he knew what they had and where they were) when said weapons had been given to Iraq/Saddam in the 1980s (during the Iran-Iraq War) by the Reagan-Bush cabal which didn't give a damn how the weapons were to be used? But Cheney was right that he knew what they had because he and Rumsfeld had been instrumental in giving them to Saddam!
Why weren't the weapons inspectors allowed to finish their work? They had found NOTHING and the the cabal along with the cowardly Dems who gave the war bipartisan cover couldn't let the ultimate truth -- that there was nothing there -- be known.
Common sense and even the most cursory review of history would have revealed these and so many more truths and challenges to a war of choice and aggression against Iraq. The repukes were (and are) shameless with their chickenhawk warmongering and desire to use military force without provocation or concern for the consequences. The Dems who went along to get along and advance their political ambitions deserve disdain and a special place in hell.