Republicans Voted To Go To War - Democrats Voted To Cover Their Asses

[THUNDER HANDS]

and not look like a bunch of wimps heading into the mid-term elections.

I think that's the most honest way to look at how the Congress voted on the Iraq war in 2002.

Whether you supported a candidate who voted for the war in 2004 - like I did with John Kerry (or those who might have with John Edwards or Dick Gephardt).

Or whether you support a candidate who voted for the war in 2008 (like Edwards or Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden).

There is no question that the Republicans were voting to go to war, and the Democrats were voting to cover their butts and not look like anti-war doves.

One party wanted war. The other party wanted political cover.

One party was criminally responsible for the biggest military mistake in the nation's history.

The other was criminally negligent in shirking its responsibility as the clear-headed opposition.

Regardless of who you support, in 2009 and beyond, we need to make sure this party doesn't forget the mistake it made six years ago, and always hold it accountable for its actions.

[Singular73]

1. Thats certainly true, for many democrats

But not all

[BeatleBoot]

2. There was a War Vote in 2008 ? Who did we invade now?

[xchrom]

3. and they did that because of reagan's tactics.

they programmed themselves to run away from the things we all KNEW they really stood for.

that's what has been so frustrating about the democratic party's trajectory since reagan.

run away from the ''liberal''{just as an example} and you run away from a whole lot more.

now that we are finding out the war has had a direct effect on our economic slow-down -- and threatening the global economy -- MAYBE we can the democratic party really embrace the politics of the without trepidation of labeling.