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In reply to the discussion: It's a Hoax to Suggest that Most Dem Senators Who Voted for the Iraq War were Hoaxed into It. [View all]cali
(114,904 posts)54. nonsense. utter and complete
So that's why Senator Leahy in his speech prior to the vote called it a blank check, not just once but 10x? That's why in the same speech he compared the IWR to the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
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It's a Hoax to Suggest that Most Dem Senators Who Voted for the Iraq War were Hoaxed into It. [View all]
leveymg
Feb 2013
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Why is it then that most of the best informed Dem senators voted against the IWR?
leveymg
Feb 2013
#2
yeah, it's that simple isn't it. When you're a keyboard commando. And if Cheney's flying monkeys had
KittyWampus
Feb 2013
#10
It might be that many of the Senators who both fought to improve it and voted for it
karynnj
Feb 2013
#36
But they were told that Saddam would nuke us from the Atlantic with his UAV's
Democracyinkind
Feb 2013
#3
if there's any revisionism going on here, it's that dem politicians were bamboozled by the
KG
Feb 2013
#8
K&R. Thank you for this post. My vote for MPs is clearly influenced by how they did or didn't vote
idwiyo
Feb 2013
#11
If that x-Senator democrat who voted for the war sticks her foot into the oval office door challenge
Whisp
Feb 2013
#14
Nobody's letting Bush off the hook. Just hooking those Senators who swallowed the same line.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#16
If Bush-Cheney hadn't received the backing of the majority in the Senate they couldn't have gone in.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#34
Actually, leveymg, they WERE prepared to go in legally based on the 1991 UN resolution.
blm
Feb 2013
#43
K&R They purposefully maintained Plausible Deniability, a.k.a. ir-responsibility. nt
patrice
Feb 2013
#52
Oh noes! You've raised the ire of the Blue Above All brigade with your
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#22
Your reply is just sad, it is enough to make one believe that there is no hope whatsoever.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#41
IWR got the inspectors in - senators voting for IWR citing inspections should have stood with
blm
Feb 2013
#28
That article deals with Roberts tenure as Chair of the Senate Intel Comittee - after the IWR vote
leveymg
Feb 2013
#48
And Wellstone voted against even though he expected that vote to cost him his reelection.
dflprincess
Feb 2013
#31