Reply #44: Everyone doesn't know that; half of the Democrats in the Senate voted against it

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including Durbin, whose vote, when Obama was asked about IWR in November of 2002, he says he would have followed.

The one fact that you'll never be able to get away from is that Obama made a clear speech against IWR and the war in October of 2002. Among the things he said was that the threat from Saddam and Iraq did not warrant a reciprocal threat of invasion from the U.S. Had he been wrong in that statement, nobody outside of Illinois ever would have heard of Barack Obama. He stuck his neck out and was right. The rest is word games.