Dems should admit they, too, were wrong on Iraq
James Klurfeld
April 21, 2006
Please spare me any more mush from the wimps.
I'm talking about Democrats who once supported the war in Iraq but now say they were terribly misled by the Bush administration. It's enough to turn you into a Republican!
The latest Democrat to turn my stomach on this issue is Rep. Steve Israel of Huntington. He's been a very good lawmaker in his five years in the House: savvy, hardworking and not always predictable, trying to carve out a position as a moderate to conservative suburban Democrat. As a member of the Armed Services Committee, he has tried to develop a reputation as a champion of military reform. He was a vocal proponent of the war to remove Saddam Hussein, a position I, too, favored.
But this week Israel said: "I never would have voted the way I did had I known what I know now. ... Either he
was misinformed or he misled. I'm not satisfied with either opinion." Israel says that Bush personally assured him that weapons of mass destruction would be found and that the fighting would be quick and relatively inexpensive.
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opklu214710212apr21,0,5102854,print.column?coll=ny-rightrail-columnist
No, not because there were, indeed, some Dem lawmakers who shoulda known better... well, you read the article and get back to me, huh?