Reply #18: People are misinformed

[sandnsea]

If you can't understand that your candidate said that Saddam was a threat, had WMD, must be disarmed, supported Biden-Lugar and therefore was NOT anti-war; then I can't help you. People are misinformed about Biden-Lugar, it's that simple.

Biden-Lugar was NOT a two-step process. Here's Gephardt's words at the time:

“Now, whether they will have a one-step or a two-step at the end of the day, I don't know. What the exact language of the one-step will be, I don't know. You have got Biden-Lugar, and our compromises are of the same basic category. And then you have the Levin, or other approach, which is the two-step approach."

http://dickgephardt.house.gov/info/press_releases/index.asp?ID=439

In the document posted above, Senator Kennedy said it granted the President authority to go to war:

"In effect, if that was to be accepted -- the President already said it was a grave situation. It would, in effect, grant unilaterally, without any involvement in the international community, any effort whatsoever to try and bring allies into this, give the authority for the President to go ahead with war, as the President has indicated he may very well do."