Reply #20: Same link, same question -- Edwards: "Don’t misunderstand me." [View All]

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EDWARDS: I don’t think I would have approached it the way this president did. I don’t think--See I think what happened, if you remember back historically, remember I had an up or down vote. I stand behind it. Don’t misunderstand me.
MATTHEWS: Right.
EDWARDS: I stand behind it. But if I were president of the United States, instead of going to the United Nations as an afterthought, which is how this president did it-- If I had been president of the United States, I would have been building the case over a long period of time, bringing an international pressure on Saddam Hussein.
I think the result of the way he built up to this war was he made it virtually impossible to get United Nations support.
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The Iraq scenario with Edwards is quite different that the unilateral invasion with by the * administration. Edwards has been repeatedly clear in denouncing the unilateral invasion. In fact, it's possible that there would have been no invasion at all under Edwards, with a proper UN international coalition at hand.