Reply #160: Yes. He has voted for funding [View All]

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As has Senator Clinton.

You know good and well that if they hadn't they would have been accused of not supporting the troops. Besides, it's Congress that decides to fund or not fund the troops. The Senate just votes on it. I am not bothered by either candidate's decision to fund an ongoing war. It took Congress almost 16 years and 58,000 American deaths to vote to de-fund the Vietnam war.

No, Barack Obama was not a member of the Senate. Hillary Clinton was. She had the same chance as Richard Durbin to read the NIE. Durbin read it and came to the conclusion that the IWR was wrong. Dick Durbin voted against the IWR. Hillary Clinton did not read the NIE. Instead, she spouted the exact talking points made by every right-wing pundit in the land:

"Saddam needs to disarm. We don't know what weapons he has - maybe biological. I looked at the intelligence carefully..."

It's all there: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cZcY6TGfAxE