Do you feel like IWR yea votes were, at the time, correct or not?

[MoonRiver]

Poll question: Do you feel like IWR yea votes were, at the time, correct or not?

[ClarkUSA]

1. No.

And I still don't. I have to wonder about the reasons why politicians stand by their pro-IWR votes even now.

Actually I don't wonder. I know why.

[mattclearing]

2. Strange question. Why do you ask?

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

But then, tell that to the Dem senators that voted for it.

[MoonRiver]

8. I ask because

I read a lot of rationalizations for why various Senators voted for that resolution. I think it was wrong from the get go. So, I was curious to see what the majority of DUers thought. Looks like we're all pretty much on the same page. Yet I know there are some who disagree. Whether they are lurking freepers or real DUers is a question. All the posted responses here indicate dissent with the resolution. If some agree with the resolution it would be helpful for them to explain why.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. No, every disaster I predicted has happened:

no WMDs, Iraqi resistance, more anti-Americanism in the Arab world, Bush's buddies using the war to profiteer and to bankrupt the nation so that they will have an excuse to destroy the social safety net.

[Dave Sund]

4. Absolutely not...

When Daschle lost, I almost felt like he deserved it for selling out our majority and supporting this war.

[AntiCoup2K4]

5. The excuse of "trusting the pResident's inteeligence" might have worked...

...if this very same crowd didn't have a 30 year history of lies and exaggerations in order to promote war and defense industry profits.

[Crunchy Frog]

6. Not. n/t

[MrModerate]

7. One of the biggest bets the Dems ever missed . . .

I don't remember running across anyone who actually believed the WMD bullshit coming out of the White House at the time. I don't remember anyone who believed in the Saddam-bin Laden connection. I don't remember anyone who believed that Democracy imposed at the muzzle of a gun was ethical, moral, or practical.

'Course I was living in California at the time, so I was hardly listening to Schimpanski's army of dolts.

However, if the Dems had stood up and said: "This is morally wrong, this is foolish, this won't be worth the cost, this will screw up the real war on terrorism, there are better ways to deal with Saddam, and these guys are too incompetent to carry off this military adventure anyway . . ." -- which pretty much summarizes the Dem/antiwar view, IMO -- then we would all be in a much better place.

I think Dem Reps & Senators over the last 10 or 15 years have emphasized expediency and triangulation over principle and it's cost us (and the country, and the world) big time.

Heck, I'm a Bill Clinton fan, I think even HE triangulated too much!

[mmmbeer]

9. Yep, cowardly Dems were afriad to stand up to Bush even when they knew

he was wrong, and the party now finds itself in a much weaker position because of it.