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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton on Iraq vote: ‘I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.’ [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)I think it is clear he decided to attack Iraq even before 911. I think he waited until March to appear to be following a reasonable process. However, there was actually far less justification to even worry that Iraq COULD have weapons in March, than there had been in October.
Sadly, the Democrats who voted yes were co-opted to some real degree. The media has been happy to ignore any differences or nuance in their positions through that interval and minimize the blame that the Bush team should have. (This happened even to Kerry - even though his comments were NOT nuanced - "mislead us into war, without exhausting the diplomacy, with no plan and inadequate forces to win the peace .... wrong war, wrong place, wrong time .... "the US should only go to war as a last resort" - and they started BEFORE Bush invaded.