Reply #65: I'm sorry to disagree with you... [View All]

[SaveElmer]

That may have been the motivation for a very few...but I do believe that most Democratic Senators, including those I mentioned - some of which displayed heroism in VietNam - Cleland, Kerry etc - were being honest about their reasoning.

Their positions for the most part were well thought out, and reasonable based on the data available to them. I do not believe such honorable folks as these I have mentioned would really make the decision they KNEW would result in the deaths of many thousands of folks, unless they had an honest belief that by taking this action they would prevent a war from occurring assuming the inspectors were allowed to complete their work, find nothing, resulting in zero support for invasion from the Senate. Or, inspectors go in there, find the weapons Bush was cliaming existed, and then provide the leverage for a truly international response...reducing the burden on the U.S.