Did everyone forget that Democrats overwhelmingly voted for war in Iraq also?

Question

Or is that a President Bush conspiracy too?

Answer 1

I am a Democrat because my opinions are generally closer to the Democratic positions than to the Republican's.

However, I differ from the Party on the Iraq War. The War was the right thing to do for a number of reasons:

1. Sadaam Hussein actively supported terrorists and called for the destruction of Israel. He sent money to the families of suicide bombers.

2. Hussein intentionally committed one of the worst acts of environmental terrorism by setting Kuwait's oil fields on fire. You and I and everyone else on earth alive at the time breathed in the smoke from the fires.

3. It was likely that Hussein would again commit some kind of act with dire consequences for the region if left unchecked.

4. In all battles, it is extremely advantageous to choose the battlefield. Our enemies would have difficulty (thankfully) coming to the U.S. to fight us here. So, since we want to kill them, there is no better place than then centrally-located nation of Iraq over which we already had air supremacy and a sizeable force on the ground. By choosing Iraq as a battlefield, the enemies of America are drawn to our forces there like moths to a flame. It was a smart military move.

5. The War is really a warning to all other nations who would consider aiding and abetting terrorists. The message they should be getting is that if they help the bad guys, will will hunt them down. Qudafi seems to have gotten that message.

6. Edmund Burke once said that for Evil to triumph, it is only necessary that the good do nothing. In other words, if you have the power to stop evil, you have the obligation to do it. No one else could stop Hussein but the U.S.

Finally, while the War was and still is the right thing to do, the aftermath of the initial victory has been repeatedly mishandled by the Bush administration. It was stupid to think that we would be welcomed as liberators. We don't understand the Arab mind and Bush has consistently missed opportunity after opportunity to improve the situation.

For the record, leaving Iraq now is the worst possible thing we could do. We need to make a commitment that we will be there until the Iraqi government is stable and self-sustaining. Yes, we've lost more than 3,000 brave men and women so far. But still, that is twenty times less than in Vietnam, and this is for a nobler cause.

Good Luck!

;o)

Answer 2

No, no one has forgotten about any of the votes. No one has forgotten that those who voted yea trusted their President and his reasons for going to war with Iraq, then had the rug pulled out from under them when we all found out the reasons given were a bunch of manipulated b.s.

I love how people say well, they had the same access to the information that Bush did, why didn't they examine it closer? If anyone thinks that everything the Oval Office knows is common knowledge or an open book to everyone in Congress, and that all of their sources are open for examination by members of Congress, they need to have their head examined.

You can spin this any way you like, but it is Bush's War and will remain Bush's War until the merciful end of it. The Decider has made it so.

Answer 3

did everyone forget that there weren't any WMD...

if you were paying attention... you noticed a SHARP decline in Democrats support of the war as the fact seemed to become more and more clear that there were no WMD?

the clearer it became... the less they supported the war...

the real question here is... why don't Republicans care this war was waged on a blatant lie? (or a gross miscalculation of intelligence, if you want to put it as nice as you can)....

Dems voted for a war to stop a man from obtaining WMD...

what if when we got to Europe in WWII... we realized the Germans hadn't invaded anyone... and were only sitting inside their country... the public would have gone crazy for sending all our troops into a war on a false pretense...

SHOCK, SHOCK, SHOCK... just as the public has done now....

here, I'll put it into a story, so you understand...

you can't sell someone a car telling them it's a dodge viper... when it's a ford pinto... and if they buy it... sure it may be partially their fault for being stupid enough to believe you... BUT THE VAST majority of people will think the vast majority of the blame lies on the salesman...

and like it or not... IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION.. Bush, Cheney, Powell and others were almost undeniably the salesmen for this war...

there is no conspiracy... only lies... and they are pretty blatant and pretty evident in the next day's morning sun now...

Answer 4

A very important question; nevertheless, it'll be nearly impossible for there to any kind of productive answer on this one. The mass passions involved whether one is liberal or conservative simply will not allow an objective answer.

Answer 5

Only the democrat's constituency forgets. Half of them are young, gullable, and not interested, or old and senile. Hence they adopt a double standard that the republicans can not get away with.

Answer 6

I didn't forget. That's why almost everything I hear from them now regarding Iraq is meaningless.

Answer 7

Did everyone forget that Bush and the administration lied out their asses about WMD's there?

Or is that a republican consipriacy?

Answer 8

The Democrats in Congress where out numbered and given faulty data regarding WMD; in the possession of Hussein. Now that the Democrats have increase and have the majority; many avenues have opened to investigate, and return some levels of civility to our country and Federal Government.

Answer 9

Yeah, as Bush wrapped himself in the US flag, sang the Star Spangled Banner and all but dared anyone to be unpatriotic and not vote for war in Iraq.

Oh, and then there was the manipulated intelligence thing.

Answer 10

needless to say, libs who have no answers to relevant questions will always vote for whatever is popular at the time and then change 180 when attitudes change!! They have no backbone and are HYPOCRITES