Reply #104: Absolutely yes, I would have voted against.

[Iverson]

"You are all empathetic liberals, put yourself EXACTLY in that time and place and tell me how many of you would have voted against the IWR."

It is exactly because I have some empathy that I could not be so cavalier about a life and death decision on behalf of an administration in which I have zero confidence.

It is because I have some critical faculties, as opposed to empathy, that I would demand evidence that is damned persuasive before I give in to politically motivated fear for a life and death matter.

I prefer to think of it not as a "litmus test," which is rather dismissive, but as a basic, basic principle not to wage war lightly, nor smile and nod at it for political expediency.