Reply #61: No I'm not [View All]

There's tons of links in this thread about the reasons to get inspectors back in and have Saddam complete the disarmament process. There's no evidence to dispute the claims made by Scott Ritter, the IAEA, ISIS, CIA, etc. The Authorization vote was not a blank check war vote. That's the whole point. Even Kucinich said, "The resolution passed yesterday by Congress authorized enforcement of UN Security Council resolutions, not colonization." The Authorization did get the inspectors back in. Bush and the rest of the Administration refused to cooperate with the UN, the inspectors, foreign countries, and our own Congress after that point. That's what I'm saying.

I'm not saying this war was the right thing to do, only that at the time of the vote there was no real evidence to dispute the claims that HAD been made. There is no way for anybody to be saying they KNEW anything based on any real facts. This is Bush's war and the more Democrats focus on each other instead of Bush, the more likely he is to get away with what HE did.