"Most Democrats voted for the Iraq war"

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Last edited Sun Oct 14, 2018, 10:36 AM - Edit history (1)

It's unbelievable I still see this posted.
By both the right and the left.


Reality:


Out of 258 Democrats total in Congress 111 voted for the Iraq Resolution.

Out of 270 Republicans total in Congress 263 voted for the Iraq Resolution

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution

[BeckyDem]

1. My hero.

How Barbara Lee Became An Army of One

She was the only member of Congress to vote against the use of force after 9/11. Now, she’s finding unlikely allies in her campaign against America’s forever war: Republicans.

By AUSTIN WRIGHT

July 30, 2017

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/30/how-barbara-lee-became-an-army-of-one-215434

[malaise]

3. +1,000

Saw her on TV recently

[BeckyDem]

5. She was always her own woman. Respect her big time.

[Stargleamer]

17. I don't think there is anyone better in Congress than she is n/t

[BeckyDem]

18. Imho, there isn't.

[JonLP24]

2. It looks like the Senate most did

I remember Robert Byrd. A much better Senator than Manchin.

Also I wonder who that Independent Congressman was that voted no?

[SHRED]

6. I posted this

To address the false equivalency I see out there.

[JonLP24]

7. That's fine

I haven't thought about the war vote in awhile so I'm glad you're bringing it up.

[dsc]

14. unless you were gay for example

Byrd was horrible on this own levels. Yes he war vote was good but many of his votes were every bit as bad as or worse than Manchin's.

[mucifer]

4. I clearly heard Al Franken state when he was a radio personality from Air America

that he was fooled by Colin Powell and would have voted for the war. He even admitted to laughing at w's joke about looking for WMDs. He wasn't proud of it and learned from his mistakes. That said, lots of democrats voted for the war. Yes, they were given false information. Yes, they appeared to trust the republicans in the administration. We just have to hope that they learned from it as Senator Franken did.

[wiggs]

8. And that's after being force fed lies from the administration. nt

[DFW]

9. Read the resolution

Much of it was of an "if it should be proved that....." nature.

Most of the clauses were contingencies that were either never proven or outright lies. "Should it be proved that George W. Bush eats live babies for breakfast and Dick Cheney has the leftovers for lunch, the USA shall be expelled from the UN." That kind of thing.

[question everything]

12. Right. And most of the country supported it

We cannot expect our reps to support what most want on one item and vote against on the other.

[DFW]

16. They didn't think far enough

I think most Democrats that voted for it did so thinking "if it turned out to actually be true, and action was warranted, we are obligated to support such action. I'll bet plenty of them didn't realize they were being led into voting for giving Cheney a blank check to undertake a useless military adventure in order to bring prosperity to his company.

The "if this should prove to be true" part was interpreted deliberately by the Republicans to mean, "well, we'll just assume it's true and act accordingly."

[Polybius]

11. Thanks for the info!

That war was a complete disaster. Bush should have been impeached for the lies he told Congress.

[gulliver]

13. It was a Republican war (as is the current Drug War)

[shockey80]

15. They did not vote to invade Iraq.

That was all on Bush. It was his choice.

[Joe941]

19. Thank you.