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you have a very poor memoryMore dishonesty, since no one ever asserted any such thing.
Partisan hacks like you wear blinders purposely, and/or are simply dishonest. But you know that.
Let's not pretend that it was the Dems who wanted this war. Yes many went along with it because Bush and Co. were hammering them politcally, questioning their patiotism and such. But it was the Repubs who wanted this war, Bush and his gang were out there every day scaring and lying the public into war.
By the way, is it un-patriotic, at a time of war (yes, it is still a time of war) to hope for the failure of our President, who by the way is the Commander in Chief?
Just wondering...
there were dems that wanted it
they voted for it
It's not my memory that is lacking, it's your inability to read my post that is confusing you.
It was not Dems out there everyday mongering for war, it was the Repubs. The vast majority of votes against the war came from Dems. In fact I can't think of a single Repub who voted against it, though there may have been one or two.
I also can't remember any Dems who were out front and in favor of the war, most who voted for the authorization went to great leangths to explain that they were only voting for authorization in order to give the President the leverage he deeded to force Hussein to disarm (see the speach John Kerry gave at the time of the vote).
Dems did vote for the authorization, but it was Bush who wanted his war and the Repubs were more than happy to follow him for the politcal power they accrued in the process.