Reply #36: It was the right political move

[K-W]

no offense, but if you ran the dem party, there wouldnt be a dem in congress to vote on any resolutions. The republicans were going to win that fight not matter what, AND Bush could have gone to war anyway. They werent going to stop the war, so they had two choices.

1. Vote against it, not stop the war and at the same time risk the entire future of thier seats and the democratic party

or

2. Vote for the resolution, give defendable reasons, that way if the war goes well for Bush, you havent committed political suicide and if it goes badly, you can simply say that you gave him the power to make war under the right circumstances and he made them under the wrong ones.

Guess what, we all know the war was wrong. The country certainly hasnt made up thier minds yet. It is still entirely feasible that by the 2004 election a solid faction of America feels good about Iraq. If that happens, anyone who took option 1 has zero chance to win the presidency and has given republicans looking to unseat them good ammo.

Democrats have to stay in office to have any effect on anything. I applaud them for making the right decision to stay in office and I think any democrat who complains about it should rethink what in the heck they want our politicians to do if they have to be unbending idealogues to get democratic support.