Project our opinions of the Bushies now back to 2002. Things were not so cut and dried then. Fact is they had conducted a fairly efficient and widely supported campaign in Afghanistan. We were only a year out from 911 and so folks were still inclined to give Bush the benefit of the doubt. Folks respected by Democrats at the time such as George Tenet (Clinton's CIA director) and Colin Powell were urging action...
Hindsight is truly 20/20. I'm not saying a very strong case could not have been made at the time for not voting for the IWR...it certainly was by many Democrats...but I also believe a strong case could be made for voting for it....at the time, and I think most of the Democrats that votde for it honestly believed it was the proper course of action.
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