Reply #87: I think knowing what we know now

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and still saying you would vote for that resolution is stupid. I can only speak for myself though. But if I had been a senator and voted for the resolution initially and if asked if I would do so again, I would say, "Not knowing what I know today because first, the intelligence was faulty and second, this president (Bush) cannot be trusted. He was in a rush to war. I couldn't possibly give Bush authority to wage war knowing what I know today."

I think that Senator Kennedy, Byrd, Feingold and the others who voted No--understood this. I honestly do believe that Sen. Kerry, who voted against the Gulf War Resolution in 1991, voted for the resolution because he was running for president in 2004 and he couldn't afford to be linked to an anti-war stand because, while it might play in the democratic primaries (it didn't this time) it may not in the general election.