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It's very simple.
The reason that has been given by almost all the Dems for why they voted to authorize the war is that they were fed bogus intel that led them to vote the wrong way.
Gates has a proven history of making up intel to fit the Executive's needs.
Therefore, any Dem who voted for the war only because they were given bad intel, should have voted against Gates. (Like so many of them did back in 1991.) A vote against Gates would have been a vote against dishonest intel.
Whether Gates would have been confirmed without their votes is moot. As Senators, it's their job to vote in the nation's interests - - not to vote in the nation's interests only when they get 50 other Senators to vote the same way. And again - - if a single one of the current Senate Dems had an atom of real leadership in them, they could at least attempt to get other Senators to take a stand against bogus intel.
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