Most elected Democrats voted *against* war in Iraq

[BlueCaliDem]

45. My only surviving sister was deployed TWICE to Iraq. Her husband's helicopter was nearly shot down,

almost making her a young widow. And my sister is currently under treatment for PTSD ever since watching four of her good friends bombed to pieces in the vehicle right in front of her by an IED while realizing that it could have been her vehicle had the IED gone off a minute later.

So I know the tragedy that families suffer when America decides to launch another war for oil. Believe me. But that only strengthens my resolve to never have another Republican in the White House, and I'll be damned if I'm going to crap on other DUers who, like me, also don't want to see another Republican in the White House ever again.

I don't give a rat's patooty how many Dems voted for the IWR. They didn't launch it. They didn't push for it. And we had a war-mongering Republican in the White House. That Republican president - or more accurately, the Republican Neo-con Vice President - had pushed HARD for war, and a propaganda media posing as a viable 4th estate made certain that it was drummed into our heads.

Had Al Gore gotten the support (was only 55% turnout, unlike Obama's 61% in 2008 and 59% in 2012) there wouldn't have been a 9/11 and there wouldn't have been a war. Everywhere I looked, some political novice was pontificating that Gore was the same as Bush, inadvertently helping the GOP-machine to disenchant voters to the point that the elections were so close that it was easy to steal.

I won't fall for that b.s. for a second time. Even if I have to hold my nose, I'll vote for Hillary Clinton IF she is the nominee, because I understand that standing on my principles as a Liberal and refusing to vote for the Democratic nominee because that person voted for the IWR or comes across too conservative will only help Republicans.