Reply #6: Bush didn't need any cheerleaders. There were plenty of [View All]

[joemurphy]

those outside the Democratic party. I don't recall Clinton being a big supporter of invasion. Like everyone else, Edwards, Bayh, Kerry, Schumer, Biden, Gephardt, and Reid -- she was boxed into a corner and did what was considered by many at the time to be the prudent thing -- to approve the Iraq War Resolution. At the time, one of the major selling points of the IRW was that Bush needed it to show that he had America behind him when he took his case to the UN. To forget the nuances underlying the vote for the IRW is to paint a false picture of what really happened.