I'm sorry, guys. I can't get past her vote for the Iraq "war".

[stevenleser]

294. Exactly. not just 'many' members of the UN, 15-0 vote in the Security council on

UN Security Council Resolution 1441. See my #176 above.

There is a lot of revisionist history being used by those who want to blame Democrats for their votes on IWR. When you view the entire history of the runup to the war as all happening simultaneously without the timeline as context, it seems worse than it was. When you understand everything that was happening at each point in history, including the fact that a few weeks after the IWR, the UN Security Council voted 15-0 for Security Council Resolution 1441 that said that Iraq was in breach of applicable resolutions and demanded a return of the weapons inspectors, you see that almost all of the world thought it likely that Iraq had these weapons.

Contrast that with those under this OP who claim Democrats "should have known better" because those posters here guessed right on a Yes-No 50-50 proposition with nothing to back them up at the time because no one knew for sure either way. Also remember that what was being discussed at the time IWR and UN SEC RES 1441 was passed was putting pressure on Iraq to get the weapons inspectors back into the country which both things together accomplished.

If you take everything together as happening simultaneously instead of the reality at the time each event occurred, and you selectively forget certain things, then yes, you can find fault with Democrats. However, if you don't have a revisionist history of the time period and understand what was happening as each event occurred, you realize that Democrats were not at fault and the only one who was at fault was Bush and the administration for ignoring the UN Weapons Inspector reports of March 7 2003. The article of mine I linked to in my #176 above lays it all out.