Reply #1: Ahh, the no nuance approach. By that logic Hillary is a war criminal.

[pampango]

If you vote for the war you are responsible for every bad thing that happens in it.

The fact is you have one candidate who voted for the IWR and one who says he wouldn't have, but we'll never really know. I think it is possible, perhaps even likely, that he would have (but I can't "prove" it).

My logic: Every one of our our senators who has since run for President voted for the IWR. Where they particularly susceptible to being fooled by Bush, moreso than Wellstone, Feingold, Boxer, and Kennedy (who have not run for president since)? My take is that those with presidential ambitions were just as smart as those without, but saw the political wisdom of voting for the IWR, so as not to be cast as "soft on defense" by the Republicans when they ran for president.

That's why I think if it is possible, even likely, that Obama would have voted for the IWR if he had been in the Senate. But we will never "know" for sure, so to equate their antiwar records is not accurate.