Reply #70: Sorry but this really is a silly question [View All]

[BootinUp]

She made a descision based on the facts as she knew them and the discussions she had with people from both outside and inside the Administration at that time, and in light of the political realities of how to best avoid the war.

One resolution vote was not enough to stop the march to war, not with an election 2 weeks away.


All things considered, on balance, that vote was the best the Dems could do at the time, to get the inspectors in there, the calculation was that it would lessen the case for war.


Ask yourself this, what is the better way to convince your scared fellow Americans that war is not necessary?

1)FULL UNFETTERED INPSECTIONS REVEALING HE WAS NOT THE THREAT WE WERE BEING TOLD

or

2)SOME ANTIWAR DEMS THAT ARE NOT PREPARED TO FORCE THE INSPECTIONS VOTING DOWN A RESOLUTION.


If we chose number 2 the issue would not have just gone away, it would have been back in January and with more Republicans in Congress and the Senate, and no inpsections going on in Iraq.