Reply #12: That October vote was never a "Gung-Ho we're going to War" [View All]

[LynneSin]

Many of the democrats who supported it (including my own Joe Biden) felt that we wanted to give the Bush Regime the right to use force as a diplomatic leverage in conjunction with the UN.

I know, I know - we (as members of DU and other progressive thinkers) knew that Bush couldn't be trusted with that kind of power. We (again see above comments) knew that Bush would never wait for approval from the UN before he sent in forces.

Hence they (the Bush Regime) built a case to appeal to the fears (Hussein has WMDs and they will be unleashed on your community) and Compassion (Hussein had ties with those who committed the atriocious acts on 9/11). Bush knew if he got America (or at least those who aren't atune to progressive websites and literature) behind him by wrapping the flag so damn tight around himself, that he could have slaughtered virgins and saints and America would have still plastered magnetic flags on their SUVs.

What many of the democrats honestly believed was that if war was necessary that it would be in conjunction with the UN - in a similiar path like Kosovo. We would share the cost and the burden of our troops with other countries and no not countries like Uzbekistan, Tonga and Columbia - real countries who would supply troops like France, Germany and Russia.

We know the rest of the story. We're angry because we knew Bush would lie but some of the Democrats in trusted him.