Reply #27: You're asking something me something that I can't answer. [View All]

[AndyA]

I don't know all the facts. You don't know all the facts.

This is what William Rivers Pitt wrote about the IWR:

I think the IWR Vote would have been essentially benign…

had Bush not been in office. It is true that dealing with that regime required a big stick to weild, all the way back to Clinton. All those bombs Clinton dropped were done to force the continuation of the UNSCOM inspections. Look at this last war; Hussen all but surrendered beforehand, because the threat was enough. The IWR opened the door for inspections under threat. Had the inspections been allowed to be completed unmolested, the cause for war would have evaporated…and the inspections were only going to be allowed under threat, which was provided by the IWR.

It would appear there were a lot of things in the IWR designed to prevent war, but Bush abused his power.

I'm as angry about it as anyone, and I do hold those who voted for it responsible for their votes. But you can go back and dredge up every mistake a candidate has ever made, and they've all made them. Barack is not free of bad votes, endorsements, and decisions, either. Some are worse than others, but all of the candidates have made mistakes.